Someone upstairs was looking out for Ed Robertson this weekend: the Barenaked Ladies co-founder walked away from a plane crash on Sunday, completely unscathed.
"At 12:30 p.m. a Cessna 206 was taking off from Baptiste Lake, lost airspeed and entered a wooded area west of the lake," Bancroft OPP Seargent Jeff NacKinnon confirmed.
The float-plane, which reportedly belonged to Ed, a pilot, crashed near Baptiste Lake in Ontario. Although the investigation has been turned over to Canada's Transportation Safety Board and no other details have been released, area sources have said Ed was flying the plane.
The plane was totaled, but all four passengers - reported to be Ed, his wife Natalie and friends Julie and Jeff Jones - were unhurt. Shaken, but unhurt, which Barenaked Ladies spokesman Adam Smith said is "the most important thing".
A local paper quoted a resident as saying the winds were gusting in the area yesterday. "He got up, and he got into a stall," he said of Ed, whose plane apparently wound up hanging from a tree, its nose resting on the ground.
Ed was apparently familiar with the area; the paper described him as a "well-known, well-liked cottager". In addition to the business of rock n' roll, he hosts Ed's Up, which sees him flying to different destinations across the nation using only GPS coordinates.
This is the kind of story that gives me shivers - no doubt Ed and his wife went home and hugged their kids extra hard that night.
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