Police in Lillooet have confirmed that a pilot has died when a small plane crashed near the community’s airport.

RCMP say they were notified that a bush plane had crashed just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

They say emergency responders pulled the unconscious pilot from the aircraft, but that they died at the scene.

The Transportation Safety Board has said that a team of investigators would be sent to the site.

Related: • TSB to send investigators to site of plane accident in Lillooet, B.C.

The agency described the aircraft as a privately registered Bushmaster Super 22, but no additional information was released.

BC Emergency Health Services has said that multiple ambulances, including a helicopter, responded to the crash site near the north end of Lillooet Airport’s runway, but no pat

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