Plane crash kills Two near Nanaimo golf course in Canada

Two people have been killed in a small plane crash near Nanaimo.

Transportation Safety Board spokesman Bill Yearwood says the plane, an “amateur built” Avid amphibious aircraft, crashed on takeoff from the Nanaimo Airport in Cassidy Saturday evening.

Cassidy is located about 20 kilometres northeast of Nanaimo.

Yearwood says the single engine two seater went down on the Cottonwood Golf Course, which is adjacent to the airport, and that the two people on board died of their injuries.

Some golfers were on the course at the time of the crash, but Yearwood says there are no reports of anyone else being injured.

He adds that Mounties are interviewing witnesses on the ground as they, along with the TSB and the B.C. coroner’s service, investigate the crash.

No details have been released at this point concerning the victims.

Weather conditions were sunny and clear at the time of the fatal accident.