Christina Lake Fire Rescue was called into action after a single-engine propeller plane made a rough landing on the Canadian-side of the Cascade-Laurier border crossing Sunday, Oct. 17.
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Chief Joe Geary said two American men were aboard the Cessna when at around 4:30 p.m., it drove off the packed-gravel runway astride the 49th parallel. The men, a student-pilot and his instructor, walked away unhurt.
“They overshot the runway,” Geary said, explaining that the student-pilot had misjudged the landing after a routine area flight.
The plane sprung a very small fuel leak after stopping less than 10 metres from the end of the strip. A department crew had meanwhile set up a fire hose in case the fuel caught fire. It did not.
A pickup truck with Washington plates then towed the plane to the American side of the border.
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