A man is dead after a plane crash in Blackfalds Thursday afternoon, RCMP said.

RCMP responded to a field in Blackfalds at approximately 2:30 p.m., where a pilot that had left the Lacombe Airport on a biplane crashed after experiencing "what witnesses believed to be engine trouble."

The pilot was pronounced dead on scene, and his name will not be released.

No one else was injured as a result of the crash.