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Barenaked Ladies Singer Survives Plane Crash
August 25, 2008
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Ed Robertson, frontman for the Barenaked Ladies, poses in front of his plane in Toronto in 2006
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Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies at the Hard Rock in La Jolla, CA
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Ed Robertson, frontman for the Barenaked Ladies, poses in front of his plane in Toronto in 2006
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Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies at the Hard Rock in La Jolla, CA
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: August 25, 2008 14:09 PM
TORONTO, CANADA --
The lead singer of the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies and three other people survived a plane crash in rural southeastern Ontario, authorities said Monday.
Ed Robertson’s Cessna 206 floatplane crashed in a wooded area near Bancroft, Ontario, on Sunday afternoon as he was trying to take off from Baptiste Lake, Ontario Provincial police Sgt. Bruce Quigg said. Quigg said no one in the plane was injured.
Robertson’s friend Gord Peel told The Belleville Intelligencer newspaper that the other passengers were Robertson’s wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones.
Peel, who said he has known Robertson for about a decade, arrived on the scene shortly after the crash and found the four friends walking on a road, shaken but unharmed.
He said the plane stalled but Robertson managed to set it straight down into the trees with its nose resting on the ground. They had to get out through the windows but did not have a scratch, he said.
“Everyone is fine and that is the important thing,” Adam Smith, the band’s manager, said Sunday night in an e-mail. “That’s all the comment we have at this time.”
Spokeswoman Julie Leroux said Monday that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is assessing the accident scene to determine whether an investigation will be launched.
Robertson is host of “Ed’s Up” on the Outdoor Life Network. The show documents his travels by plane. He received his pilot’s license in 2005 and is described on the OLN Web site as a “recreational pilot.” Episodes involve landing his Cessna on water near cities across North America.
This is the second time this summer that a member of the Barenaked Ladies has made headlines. Singer Steven Page was arrested in upstate New York last month and charged with possession of a controlled substance.
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