A private plane belonging to a company owned by Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce has been forced to make an emergency landing in Hamilton.
Airport spokesman Frank Scremin says the plane, operated by local company Jetport, reported a problem with its hydraulics system around 11:55 a.m.
Scremin says airport emergency services, as well as local police and firefighters, were on standby at the airport in accordance with standard emergency procedures.
He says the plane landed about an hour later without incident or injury.
Scremin could not confirm a Hamilton Spectator report that Joyce, the millionaire co-founder of the popular coffee chain, was on board the aircraft.
Joyce fractured two vertebrae in a 2007 Jetport crash in northern Nova Scotia that was at the centre of a Transportation Safety Board investigation, which wrapped up in November.
That probe found the two pilots had limited experience flying the 14-passenger jet and were unaware that the visual, ground-based guidance system they were using wasn’t suitable for the aircraft.
