A New Brunswick man has been killed after his small plane crashed in a private airfield just outside of Sussex.
Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board were called in and began looking for answers as to what caused the crash.
“We're looking at the scene, we're photographing the scene, we're obtaining statements from persons who are potential witnesses,” said Bruce Mullin of the Transportation Safety Board.
investigators (TSB) say they’re looking for witnesses who might have seen or heard something when the small plane went down.
“It was a privately-owned single-engine aircraft,” said Sgt. Jim McPherson of the Sussex RCMP. “I believe it has two seats. The pilot was located in the aircraft, deceased.”
RCMP say the plane was discovered on Wednesday evening about 50 metres from the runway in a corn field. The pilot, a 67-year-old man from Kingston, N.B., was the only person in the plane at the time of the crash.
The TSB released an image showing one of the investigators taking a picture of the left wing tip of the plane.
The plane is described as a Zenair 7-10 amateur-built aircraft, which sustained major damage in the crash.
“We have obtained a couple pieces of evidence from the aircraft that we're going to be sending to our engineering branch,” Mullin said. “There are GPS (devices) which we're hoping will afford us information on the aircraft track itself.”
The TSB says there was no one at the airfield when the aircraft took off so, at this time, they don't know the purpose of the flight or where it was going.
The pilot has not been publicly identified, but the RCMP say his family has been notified.
The two TSB investigators dispatched to the scene have wrapped up their on-site analysis of the downed plane, but the investigation continues.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Laura Lyall.
