CHILLIWACK (NEWS1130) – A small plane has crashed while landing at Chilliwack Municipal Airport.

A family of four was on-board; everyone walked away with only minor injuries.

Chris was driving eastbound on Highway 1 and called our newsroom just before 1:30 p.m.

“I was just driving along the freeway and I saw the plane approaching from the east and all of a sudden it went sideways — there’s quite a heavy crosswind here — and it cartwheeled into the drainage ditch,” he explains.

“[It] looked pretty horrific,” he tells us.

“The first thing I did was pull over and call 9-1-1 and report it. Shortly after, maybe a minute, I saw two people climb out over the bank onto the drainage canal, and a few minutes later two more got out,” says Chris.

There’s no word yet on what caused the crash.