Pilot crash-lands plane into Quebec yard (Video)

A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a home in the Saint-Hubert neighbourhood of Longueuil.

The plane appears to have crashed outside a home at 1220 Jean-Baptiste-Charron St., a small, dead-end street near Raoul Ave., very near Route 116 to the airport. The plane crashed immediately after taking off from the Saint-Hubert airport.

Yvon Chateauneuf said he looked up to see the plane flying very low.

“That engine was revving way too slow, and then when I look up at the plane, I thought, ‘this thing’s going to crash,’” Chateauneuf said.

When the plane landed on his neighbour’s backyard, Chateauneuf rushed over and tried to help the pilot, who was conscious but bleeding heavily, Chateauneuf said.

“She had a cut on her forehead about three or four inches,” he said, adding the pilot appearing to be wearing a flight school uniform.

When fire crews arrived they doused the plane in foam to ensure it didn’t catch on fire.

Chateauneuf said the pilot was “very lucky” in that she didn’t hit a tree or power lines.

“She fell at the best place it could happen,” he said.

The single-engine plane is registered to the Montreal Flying Club in Saint Hubert.

Agencies/Canadajournal