An 82-year-old pilot was safe after his small plane crashed into a tree on Oct. 19 while he was trying to land at an airport near the western Canadian city of Winnipeg, reports said.

The pilot was coming in to land when his plane lost power, making it come down too low too fast, clipping a hydro-line wire and then crashing into a tree, reported quoted sources with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as saying.

The plane was stuck about 10 meters above the ground and leaking fuel, leaving the pilot dangling upside down in the plane's cabin for about two hours before he was rescued by emergency officials.

Fire and police crews worked to shut off electricity to the power line, secure the plane, and push back the crowd of people that had gathered.

Firefighters working from the bucket of a back-hoe eventually lashed the plane to the tree, and then removed the pilot from the plane's cabin on a boom lift.

The man waved a little sheepishly as he made his way down, but he was not hurt and remained conscious throughout the ordeal. After a quick check-over in an ambulance he was ready to go home.

Investigators at the Transportation Safety Board did a preliminary examination of the plane on the afternoon of Oct. 19, but could not find anything obviously wrong.

They plan to continue their investigation on Oct. 20.