The lead singer of the Canadian pop lot Barenaked Ladies and deuce-ace other people survived a plane crash in rural southeastern Ontario, authorities aforementioned Monday.
Ed Robertson's Cessna 206 floatplane crashed in a wooded area near Bancroft, Ontario, on Sunday good afternoon as he was nerve-racking to take off from Baptiste Lake, Ontario Provincial police Sgt. Bruce Quigg said. Quigg said no one in the plane was injured.
Robertson's friend Gord Peel told The Belleville Intelligencer newsprint that the other passengers were Robertson's wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones.
Peel, wHO said he has known Robertson for about a decade, arrived on the scene shortly after the crash and found the four friends walking on a road, shaken but unharmed.
He said the planer stalled simply Robertson managed to fructify it full-strength down into the trees with its nose resting on the ground. They had to get out through the windows only did non have a scratch, he said.
"Everyone is fine and that is the of import thing," Adam Smith, the band's manager, said Sunday night in an electronic mail. "That's all the comment we have at this time."
Spokeswoman Julie Leroux aforementioned Monday that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is assessing the stroke scene to determine whether an probe will be launched.
Robertson, 37, is host of "Ed's Up" on the Outdoor Life Network. The register documents his travels by plane. He received his pilot's licence in 2005 and is described on the OLN Web land site as a "recreational pilot burner." Episodes involve landing his Cessna on water near cities across North America.
This is the second time this summer that a member of the Barenaked Ladies has made headlines. Singer Steven Page was arrested in upstate New York last-place month and charged with possession of a controlled substance.
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