Toronto pilot dies after float plane crash near Peterborough

By News Staff

Posted July 11, 2012 11:52 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A Toronto pilot has died in hospital after a float plane crash north of Peterborough earlier this week.

The OPP confirmed Wednesday that Roy Crocker, 72, died in a Peterborough hospital following Monday’s crash in Gannon’s Narrows on Pigeon Lake.

An autopsy was scheduled in Toronto on Wednesday.

Crocker’s 180A Cessna crashed into a barge from Camp Maple Leaf around 3 p.m. after a failed takeoff. There were seven people on the barge, none of them children, at the time. One of them was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Efforts to pull Crocker’s plane out of the lake will continue Wednesday.

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