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Two student pilots were killed in a midair plane crash in Canada on Tuesday, July 8<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The collision occurred as the student pilots were attending Harv\u2019s Air pilot training school<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating the cause of the crash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Two student pilots have been killed in a midair collision involving their single-engine planes in Canada.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at around 8:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 8, according to a press release<\/a> from the Steinbach Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<\/p>\n The pilots were training at Harv\u2019s Air pilot training school south of Steinbeck in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Associated Press<\/a> and regional outlets CTV New<\/em><\/a> and CityNews Montreal<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Adam Penner, the owner of Harv\u2019s Air, said that the student pilots were \u201cpracticing their takeoffs and landings\u201d when their Cessna aircrafts collided roughly 1,300 ft. from the runway in a field, according to the outlets.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was some sort of communication issue where they weren\u2019t seeing each other,\u201d Penner told CityNews Montreal. \u201cThey were on approach, and they collided somewhere on the approach.\u201d<\/p>\n The pilots were found deceased at the scene, the RCMP confirmed in their press release.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n