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Two pilots are dead after their small planes collided mid-air Tuesday morning in southern Manitoba.
RCMP holding news conference at 1:30 p.m. CT about crash
CBC News
· Posted: Jul 08, 2025 12:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago
Two pilots are dead after their small planes collided mid-air Tuesday morning in southern Manitoba.
RCMP are holding a news conference about the crash at 1:30 p.m. CT in the division headquarters in Winnipeg. CBC News will livestream the news conference here and on CBC Gem.
The crash happened around 8:45 a.m. in the rural municipality of Hanover, south of Steinbach.
RCMP say the bodies of the pilots were found in the wreckage of the single-engine planes.
There were no passengers aboard.
Adam Penner, president of Harv's Air flying school, said the crash involved students and happened during a training exercise.
No information on the ages or the sex of the pilots has been released.
The Transportation Safety Board said it has deployed a team of investigators to the scene.
Corrections
We initially reported that the crash happened at 4:45 p.m. In fact, it happened at 8:45 a.m.
Jul 08, 2025 12:55 PM EDT
With files from Rosanna Hempel
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