CP NewsAlert: Six dead in N.W.T. plane crash, one survivor taken to hospital

By The Canadian Press on January 24, 2024.

The Northwest Territories provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. The Northwest Territories coroner's office is expected to provide an update this morning into a deadly plane crash near the town of Fort Smith. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. – The Office of the Chief Coroner in the Northwest Territories says four passengers and two Northwestern Air Lease crew members have died in a plane crash near the town of Fort Smith.

One survivor has been airlifted to a hospital in Yellowknife.

More coming.

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