dentistoakville.com905-842-6030MECHANICAL SERVICESAUTOPRO OAKVILLE2212 Wyecroft Road, Oakville905-469-2442an on stageSNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2010ONTARIOS TOP NEWSPAPER - 2Mul005-2008Artsceneautoprooakville.mechanicnet.com48 Pages $1.00 (plus tax)A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd.FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011 Vol. 49 No. 54USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIESMICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER EMERGENCY LANDING:An unidentified pilot and a Halton Regional Police officer survey the damage after the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a field behind a Burlington high school late Thursday morning. Three White Oaks Secondary School students were passengers aboard the plane.Plane carrying WOSS students makes forced landingBy Tim Whitnellwho were surveying new subdivisions as part towards the edge of the forest it did a 180 What I heard was (the pilot say) Metroland West Media Groupof a geography class assignment.(degree spin) after bouncing down the field. I 'We are going to go real low overThe plane was being flown by a 23-year-noticed people coming out of the plane. They For ththis field.' He was really calm.ree Oakville high school students,old male pilot.were shaken up but in good spirits, said their school field trip turned into a real, andSean Livingston, a Grade 12 teacher at Livingston.frightening, trip over a field.Corpus Christi, was outside at the time as his He said the plane came out of the north-Passenger on the plane,The trio was aboard a single-engine lightschool was about to welcome hundreds of east sky barely missing some hydro power WOSS student Matt Skidmoreaircraft that made a safe emergency landing approaching students for the annual Walk lines by the roadway, then swooped over the behind a Burlington high school late With Jesus event.schools parking lot and its athletic field, nar-a forced landing in an open field just south of Thursday morning after possibly running Livingston said he ran a long distance rowly avoiding students below as well as the Corpus Christi Secondary School, off Upperout of fuel.through an uneven, muddy field to reach the tall light standards surrounding the playing Middle Road east of Appleby Line.No one was injured.plane and was the first person on the scene.field. It finally landed, rumbling through an The small plane was carrying three WhiteJust before noon, a propeller-driven CessnaWhen I was running up I was expecting open field and ending upright about a kilo-Oaks Grade 9 students, two boys and one girl,Skyhawk 172 encountered trouble and made the worst (because) when it (plane) went See No page 3 HOME AUTO LIFE BUSINESS AVIATIONTHE MAGNES GROUP INC.1540 Cornwall Rd., Suite #100, Oakville, ON L6J 7W5 Tel: 905-845-9793 Fax: 905-845-9149 www.magnesgroup.comEND INSURANCE CONFUSION. For informed decisions that you can feel good about, contact us!