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Pilot charged with impaired operation after small plane crash near Swift Current

May 23, 2018 | 12:57 PM

The pilot of a Cessna passenger plane that crashed in a field outside Swift Current yesterday has been charged with impaired operation of a plane.

According to RCMP, officers were called to the crash site on the North side of the Trans Canada Highway four kilometres outside of Swift Current at 7:30 p.m. May 22. According to police, the plane took off from a grid road before clipping trees and crashing after travelling less than two kilometres.

The two male occupants of the aircraft both suffered minor injuries, RCMP said, and members of the Swift Current Fire Department plugged a small fuel leak on the plane.

The pilot and owner of the plane, 42-year-old Calvin Pahl, was charged with impaired operation of a plane. RCMP said he was released from custody to appear in Swift Current Provincial Court June 27. He is presumed innocent at this stage.