July 23, 2024
Gimli, Manitoba
News release
On July 21, 2024, at approximately 1:10 pm, Gimli RCMP responded to a plane crash in a treed area, south of the intersection of Highway 68 and Highway 233, in the RM of Bifrost.
A crop dusting plane was spraying a field when one of the wings hit a tree and the plane crashed.
The pilot and lone occupant, a 33-year-old male from the RM of Bifrost, suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was notified.
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Contact information
Manitoba RCMP Media Relations Unit
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Tara Seel, Media Relations Officer
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Sgt. Paul Manaigre, Media Relations Officer
Robert Cyrenne, Director Communications and Media Relations
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File number: 2024-1037812