TSB looking into rough landing of small plane at Lethbridge Airport

By Lethbridge Herald on November 18, 2025.

Nathan Reiter
Lethbridge Herald
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The crash landing of a small aircraft at the Lethbridge Airport last Thursday is under investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

Just after 2:15 p.m., Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services responded to a call of a small aircraft crash. A twin-propeller Cessna 441 Conquest had come to rest on the grass beside an active runway.

Cameron Prince, the director of the Lethbridge Airport, says the pilot who was the only passenger onboard, was able to walk away with no injuries. The plane landed on its belly without the landing gear.

“We got a call that an aircraft had landed with its gear up. Right away, our staff responded. It was an excellent response from everyone, our staff, the Lethbridge Fire, RCMP, everyone got here right away, got out to the aircraft, the pilot was able to walk away with no injuries. At that point, it was just making sure, because it did land in the dry grass, making sure there was no fire coming from that, especially with the highways and everything. Lethbridge Fire cleared the scene and then YQL Aviation was able to come out and recover the aircraft very quickly.”

According to a news release from the city, the aircraft suffered significant damage to both engines and the landing gear.

=“We’ve had similar incidents over the last few years.” Prince said. “It’s pretty rare to have something like this happen. They’re generally low-level risk, no injuries, that type of thing, so we’re pretty lucky that way.”

The runway was reopened at around 7 p.m. on Thursday. Prince says the airport completed their portion of investigating the incident.

“As far as our part, we just want to get the airport back up and running and we’ve done that. Now we’re going to continue to assess to make sure no additional damage was done to our infrastructure but at this point it looks like very minor pavement damage and things like that we have to worry about. As far as our part in the aircraft investigation, we’re done with it, we’ve moved it and we carried on so we just now switch back to making sure the airport’s safe again.”