Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson managed to walk away from a plane crash yesterday. According to People, Robertson and the plane’s three passengers didn’t have a scratch on them when their Cessna 206 float-plane crashed in the Ontario woods soon after take-off from a lake near Ottawa.

Ed Robertson was flying his plane Sunday afternoon when it went down… 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.

[From CNN]

Well that’d be more than enough to make me a train traveler for life. It’s not exactly everyday that you hear about someone surviving a plane crash – certainly not walking away unharmed. It sounds like they were incredibly lucky – and probably going to appreciate driving around in a tour bus a heck of a lot more.

Here’s the Barenaked Ladies performing and signing their new CD “Snack Time” on May 10th at the Borders Books In Oak Brook, IL. Images thanks to PR Photos.