One person killed in plane crash at Pearson in Vancouver
June 28, 2022
One Person Killed in Plane Crash at Pearson in Vancouver
A pilot was killed when a small plane crashed on the southeast corner of the runway at Vancouver’s Pearson Field Airport on Tuesday morning.
The crash was reported at about 7:40 a.m. The single-engine plane caught fire on impact.
The Vancouver Fire Department extinguished the fire and confirmed the aircraft’s only occupant had died.
Just before the crash, the pilot apparently made brief emergency contact with flight controllers at nearby Portland International Airport, according to emergency radio traffic monitored at The Columbian. Pearson, a general aviation airport, does not have a control tower.
The plane took off from Pearson Field at 7:24 a.m. and crashed at 7:37 a.m., according to FlightAware, a website which tracks aircraft and flight data.