[IMAGES] A small plane crashed into a residence in Saint-Rémi; 2 people were seriously injured

Two people were seriously injured when their small plane crashed into a house in Saint-Rémi, Montérégie on Friday evening.

Samuel Dion, who witnessed the last minutes of the flight, recounts, “I saw a plane very, very low and very quick.

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“For an unknown reason,” according to the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), the device would have struck the first house before snagging power lines shortly before 7:30 p.m.

He would have finished his race against the second residence, not without damaging a car parked nearby.

Catherine Bernard, a spokeswoman for the SQ, said two people on board, in their thirties, suffered injuries that were feared to be life-threatening by the end of the evening.

As for the apartment that was damaged by fire in the accident, it was fortunately unoccupied during the events.

The spectacular accident took place on the rue de l’Église, on the outskirts of the small rural municipality of 9,000 inhabitants.

More than 2,000 people in the area were left without electricity for a few hours due to damaged power lines.

SQ Major Crime investigators will work with the Transport Safety Board to clarify the circumstances of the accident.

Last January, an octogenarian lost his life at the controls of his ultralight plane near Girardville in Lac-Saint-Jean.