Six people died and a lone survivor was taken to hospital after a charter plane crashed shortly after taking off from the airport in Fort Smith, a town of some 2,500 people along the boundary between the Northwest Territories and Alberta, officials said Wednesday.
The charter plane, a British Aerospace Jetstream 3212 operated by Northwestern Air Lease, was headed Tuesday morning to the Diavik Diamond Mine, some 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.
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FORT SMITH, N.W.T. People in a tight-knit Northwest Territories town were in mourning Wednesday as investigators began to probe a plane crash that killed six people two crew members and four passengers headed for work at a diamond mine.