An experimental flying car crashes into a tree Friday morning near a school in Vernon, B.C. The flying car clipped a fence behind Vernon’s Ellison Elementary school. It hit a tree and crashed a few metres from school property just before 9 a.m. PT.

The flying car that crashed was made by a Florida company and it’s a combination of a plane engine, propeller and parasail attached to a dune buggy.

RCMP, the manufacturer of the concept vehicle, spokesperson Gord Molendyk said there are indications the contraption had taken off from the airport in Vernon.

According to Molendyk, “It looked like it was on its approach. There was motor sound and people looked up to it and got into trouble and came through the fence and into the trees here.”

Molendyk said the pilot and his passengers had to be pulled from the tree and both suffered minor injuries and were taken into the hospital. Both are now safe and have been released from the hospital.

No one was hurt when the flying car crashed, but children from the school were preparing on the nearby grounds for a track and field day.

It’s believed Kelowna, B.C. resident Ray Sierbing recently bought the fifth-ever flying car to Canada as a prototype and has been checking it out in a series of test flights across the Okanagan, thus, giving the reason why the concept vehicle was in the area.

After the incident, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released a statement saying that the flying car was “an American corporately registered I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute.”

The car was known as “Maverick” and it uses a 100-metre runway to take off and flies under a parasail. It also requires a 100-metre runway to land safely.

The manufacturer’s website claims that the car can travel up to 160 kilometres per hour on land and up to 65 kilometres per hour in the air. The cost for each vehicle is $94,000 according to the site.