CP NewsAlert: Ten people rescued from plane crash site in remote N.W.T.

By The Canadian Press on December 28, 2023.

Rescue efforts are underway after a small aircraft crashed on Wednesday leaving 10 people stranded with injuries near a diamond mine about 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. An Air Tindi float base is shown in Yellowknife on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/James Mackenzie

YELLOWKNIFE – The military says a rescue is complete after a plane crash left 10 people, some with injuries, stranded overnight in a remote area of the Northwest Territories.

David Lavellee, a spokesman with 1 Canadian Air Division and Canadian Norad Region Headquarters, says everyone has been extracted from the site and taken to the nearby Diavik diamond mine.

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