{"id":311915,"date":"2025-11-28T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:13:08","slug":"pilot-dead-after-plane-crashes-in-nanaimo-rcmp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311915\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot dead after plane crashes in Nanaimo, RCMP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were no survivors after a plane crashed in Nanaimo early Thursday morning, the RCMP has confirmed to CityNews.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they responded to reports of the crash in a wooded area near Twilight Way around 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Coroners Service says one person was involved. <\/p>\n<p>Bill Alder, the president of Sealand Flight Ltd., a local flight training school, confirms the craft was a Sealand Flight Cessna 172.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are devastated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAviation is a small community, and Sealand Flight is like a family. Our hearts go out to the pilot\u2019s family during this incredibly difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mounties said the plane was in a large debris field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice officers remain on scene at the site of the crash, and the investigation is ongoing,\u201d the RCMP said.<\/p>\n<p>Don Goulard with the Nanaimo Airport Commission says the crash happened around eight kilometres from the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were no survivors after a plane crashed in Nanaimo early Thursday morning, the RCMP has confirmed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-311915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}