No injuries after midair collision between plane, helicopter northwest of Edmonton

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating a midair collision betwixt a chopper and a level northwest of Edmonton connected Tuesday.

It happened astir 10:30 a.m., astir 24 km northwest of nan Villeneuve Airport, which is located conscionable extracurricular of Edmonton successful Sturgeon County.

A spokesperson pinch nan TSB said a Bell 212 chopper and a Cessna 172 collided.

The spokesperson said nan Bell 212, which is registered to LR Helicopter Inc., had a aviator connected board. The Cessna 172, which is registered to nan Namao Flying Club, had a formation coach and a student connected board, according to nan TSB.

The Cessna continued to alert and landed astatine Villeneuve Airport, wherever nan flying nine is based. The aviator of nan chopper was capable to group down successful a section conscionable northwest of Sandy Lake.

The section wherever nan chopper landed is owned by Mike Schulte. He said he was connected his measurement location from municipality connected Tuesday greeting erstwhile nan incident happened.

“There was a fewer firetrucks and police. The usual. They didn’t really make a large point of it,” Schulte said.

“They alert astir present a adjacent spot — nan choppers and nan airplanes,” he continued.

“They do practice, I think, retired present rather often. They travel from Villeneuve and they alert astir present and do their training. But yeah, it’s benignant of odd.”

Schulte said he’s not judge really agelong nan chopper will enactment connected his land.

“They’re going to cheque it out. They’re either going to alert it retired if it’s bully to fly. If not, they’ll travel and haul it out,” he said.

“A mates guys person stopped by, but I deliberation it’ll each beryllium cleared up, I hope, wrong a mates of days. There’s not excessively overmuch action retired here.”

There were nary injuries, according to nan TSB.

“No 1 sewage hurt, truthful that’s a bully thing,” Schulte said.

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