One person was killed after a plane crashed at the Thunder Bay Airport on Monday night. In a written statement, airport president and chief executive officer Ed Schmidtke confirmed a twin-engine airplane crashed just after 9 p.m. Schmidtke said the airport's operations specialists responded to the incident, along with Thunder Bay police, firefighters and paramedics. At least two Air Canada flights from Toronto that were scheduled to land in Thunder Bay were re-routed after takeoff. In the statement, Schmidtke did not provide any information about when flights will resume.

Source: CBC News August 17, 2021 05:03 UTC