A seaplane pilot made an emergency landing in a lake near Halifax’s Stanfield International Airport Tuesday afternoon and ended up being rescued by boat.
The incident occurred around 1 p.m. at Turf Lake.
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According to Kevin Dean, a fire chief for the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency district, the pilot was coming from the eastern part of the province and heading to Boston when the plane ran out of power.
“I was going to bring him to Stanfield but he didn’t make it,” Dean said.
Dean described the scene as a “hard landing”, but a successful one. He said the pilot was uninjured and the plane had “minimal damage.”
“We actually put a boat in the water, went out and took the pilot to shore,” he said.
The RCMP and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will now investigate the incident.
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