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Emergency crews responded to the crash just before 12:30 p.m. near Caesarea, Durham police said in a statement. Images from the scene show a small yellow-orange aircraft on top of a boat, situated beside a dock at the lake’s edge, about 100 kilometres northeast of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½.

The boy was pronounced dead at the scene said Troy Cheseboro, chief of Durham Paramedic Services. The pilot and a passenger from the plane were transported to hospital with minor injuries.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said it has deployed a team of investigators to gather information and assess the incident. The independent agency investigates air, marine, pipeline and rail transportation occurrences to advance safety. It does not assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

“It’s difficult for anybody attending a scene like this,” said TSB inspector Peter Rowntree, adding the crash is traumatizing to those involved, those who witnessed it and also the investigators.

Rowntree said the aircraft was an Ultravia Pelican Sport 600 with amphibious floats.

“It’s always going to be difficult looking at accidents involving watercraft,” Rowntree said.

“It can be a tricky landing on water and we have to look at what our witnesses have to say. We have to talk to the pilot,” he said, adding a TSB recovery team is expected at the scene Saturday to fully examine the plane once it’s brought to shore.

A spokesperson for CD Sport Aviation, a flight school near the site of the crash, said in an email the plane did not belong to its flight school. It said it was a “private plane,” and called the situation “very upsetting.”