{"id":846319,"date":"2026-08-04T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:58:16","slug":"one-man-found-dead-after-mid-air-plane-collision-in-chilliwack-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846319\/","title":{"rendered":"One man found dead after mid-air plane collision in Chilliwack, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>One man has been found dead after a mid-air collision between two aircraft on Monday in Chilliwack, B.C., according to an RCMP statement. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP said one plane was located in a pond near Access Road, near Chilliwack Airport, and the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team located the body in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Occupants of the second plane did not sustain any injuries and made it safely back to the airport in the second plane, police said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said it is deploying investigators after two Cessna 172 aircraft crashed in mid-air near Chilliwack Airport.  <\/p>\n<p>Five ambulances were dispatched to the area of Wolfe Road and Schweyey Road, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services. <\/p>\n<p>It said the call came in at about 5:15 p.m. PT and no patients were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The TSB, an independent agency with a mandate to advance transportation safety, said in a statement its team will arrive on site Tuesday afternoon to gather information and assess the crash.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News has reached out to Chilliwack SAR and the Chilliwack Airport for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-846319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846319","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=846319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}