Time: 5pm

122nd Avenue and Highway 97 4 miles north of Osoyoos

Light plane attempts to land because of flight difficulties – hits pavement loses his wheels crashes into utility police – fire erupts – he gets out.

Police fire and ambulance on the scene. Pilot taken to SO General Hospital for treatment and possible transport to an out of area hospital. One report indicates the plane, said to be Cessna apparently clipped a tractor-trailer as it tried to land and caught fire as it crashed.

RCMP officers investigating the debris stream from the north about two blocks.

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