Plane reported down in Garden River (9:34 a.m. update)

Ontario Provincial Police have received a report of either a crash or forced landing of an aircraft in the Garden River area.

Whatever happened took place around 8:35 a.m. Saturday and police and other emergency workers are currently at the scene.

OPP have not issued a statement on the occurrence fo far, but advise SooToday.com that the highway remains open and initial investigation indicates there may have been no injuries.

SooToday.com reader Cindi Eppert says she was driving to her job in the Sault this morning on Highway 17A from Echo Bay when "I saw a plane coming down toward me."

Because that part of the highway contains few landmarks, Eppert was unaware of her exact location, but she says she was behind Garden River near the power lines in a place where the highway wasn't straight.

"When he came to the power lines, he went under them," she tells SooToday.com.

Eppert says she was close enough to the small aircraft to clearly see that there was only one person inside.

"Coming toward me, I thought he was going to land in my lane. He went beside me in the median between the two highways."

After the plane passed her, Eppert watched it as long as she could in her rear-view mirror.

She believes it attempted to land on the highway, but witnessed it rapidly approaching another vehicle before she lost sight of it.

Eppert was unable to phone police because her cell phone was dead.

SooToday.com will post additional details as they become available.