Pilot dead, two passengers injured after small plane crash near Ottawa airport
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Emergency crews responded to a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road just before 6 p.m. after reports that the small plane crashed.
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Supt. Marc-Antoine Deschamps says responders worked together to extricate the plane's three occupants.
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Deschamps says the adult male pilot of the plane was pronounced dead at the scene, and a man and woman were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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