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A 33-year-old pilot was sent to hospital with minor injuries after the crop duster he was flying crashed north of Gimli on Sunday afternoon.
At around 1:10 p.m., Gimli RCMP were called to a plane crash in a treed area, south of the intersection of Highway 68 and Highway 233, in the RM of Bifrost.
RCMP said a crop dusting plane had been spraying a field when one of the wings hit a tree and the plane crashed.
The pilot and lone occupant, a 33-year-old man from the RM of Bifrost, suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been notified and is expected to investigate the cause of the crash.
No further details have been released at this time.
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