Sunday, 31 August 2008

Barenaked Ladies frontman survives crash

Private floatplane goes down Sunday in Ontario




TORONTO -- Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson and three others have survived a floatplane crash near Bancroft, in southeastern Ontario, the band's manager, Adam Smith, aforementioned in an e-mail.

The private float-plane went down Sunday afternoon.

Robertson's acquaintance Gord Peel told The Intelligencer that the other passengers were Robertson's wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones.

Smith said Sunday night in an electronic mail that everyone was fine, but would make no other comment.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was assessing the scene of the accident, spokeswoman Julie Leroux aforementioned Monday.