Six occupants of a small plane that crashed in southeast Saskatchewan Sunday morning have all survived, the RCMP say.
The plane’s occupants appeared to be family members on a morning flight in a Cherokee Six.
Sgt. Paul Dawson said police received a call shortly after 10 a.m. about the crash in a snow-covered rural field about 8 km north of Kisbey, Sask.
The land where the plane touched down is filled with bushes, hills and pockets of water, making landing particularly difficult.
Debora Beaudry and her daughter who were driving by were the first to call emergency responders.
Beaudry told CTV Saskatoon that she went up to the plane and found four adults and two children inside.
Three of the adults had sore backs, and the older child had a sore back and leg, according to Beaudry.
“The little one didn’t seem to be hurt. She was quite scared,” Beaudry said.
“I tried to calm down the little one and then I went around the plane to go and check on the pilot because he had a lot of blood on him. He had a laceration on his nose,” she said.
Emergency crews arrived after 20 minutes and all six of the plane’s occupants were transported to local hospital.
Few other details about the crash are known, but RCMP said investigators remained at the crash site through Sunday afternoon.
Police could not say where the plane was travelling to or from where it took off.
The RCMP said Transport Canada has been notified of the crash.
Kisbey is located about 170 kilometres southeast of Regina.
