Cold Lake local time, a CF-188 [the official plane designation] Hornet from 4 Wing Cold Lake crashed inside the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range inside Saskatchewan, not far from the Primrose Lake Evaluation Range,” Capt. — A pilot killed in the crash of a CF-18 fighter jet near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary has been identified as a Hamilton man who had been with the military for a decade. The air force has said that his name “will not be released until next of kin are notified.”

Introduced in the 1980s, the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet is the backbone of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with 73 operational planes, prior to the crash. The RCAF dispatched multiple helicopter crews to search for the missing pilot, but quickly discovered that he was dead. The last crash-related death near Cold Lake was earlier this year when veteran pilot Bruce Evans crashed the T-28 Trojan he was performing in during the Cold Lake air show in July. A Canadian Forces pilot is dead after a fighter jet from 4 Wing Cold Lake crashed inside the air weapons range on the Saskatchewan side of the border.
A Canadian pilot is killed when his CF-18 fighter jet crashes near an army facility in Cold Lake, Alberta.