Pilot dies in plane crash north of Hoey, Sask.

Transportation Safety Board investigators are en route to the scene of small plane crash in central Saskatchewan.

RCMP said the pilot of a light plane was found dead on the scene when emergency personnel responded to a crash one kilometre north of Hoey, Sask, near Wakaw, Wednesday evening.

Mounties identified the pilot as a 40-year-old man, but said the name of the deceased will not be released.

Last Friday, a 22-year-old man was killed after his plane crashed in a farmer’s field near Rocanville, Sask.

On July 1, two off-duty military men were killed when their small plane crashed in the Rural Municipality of Springfield near Winnipeg.