Teen boy, 16, was standing on dock when fatally struck by small plane in Lake Scugog, police say

A 16-year-old boy who was standing on a dock was killed after he was struck by a small plane that crashed into a lake northeast of Toronto, police say.

Durham Regional Police said they responded to the plane crash on Lake Scugog near Williams Point at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday. The area is near the small community of Caesarea, north of Oshawa.

The cause of the crash and circumstances that led up to the crash are still under investigation, according to Insp. Gill Lock, spokesperson for Durham Regional Police.

Police are working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) to determine what happened, Lock said.

Lock said alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash and the pilot is co-operating with police.

The pilot and a passenger suffered minor injuries. The pilot was taken to a local hospital, while the passenger was treated at the scene.

Investigation underway

Lock said police are not releasing the name of the teen killed in the crash out of privacy for his family.

Investigators are interviewing witnesses, she added.

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Peter Rowntree, senior regional investigator at the TSB, said the primary role of the TSB is to find out what happened, why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

Rowntree said the TSB doesn't assign blame or determine criminal or civil liability.

"It's always going to be difficult looking at accidents involving watercraft. It can be tricky landing on water," he said.

He said investigators will speak to the pilot and witnesses and look at the wreckage to see if there were any anomalies. Investigators will also look at where the plane took off and where was intending to land.

He said the aircraft was an Ultravia Pelican Sport 600, an amateur-built aircraft on an amphibious float, which means it has wheels and it can land on water with the wheels up or on land with the wheels down.

The plane should be removed from the scene on Saturday, he added.

Images from the scene showed a yellow float plane that appears to have crashed upside down onto a boat and dock close to the shore.