FORT SMITH, N.W.T. One of the people who died in a charter plane crash outside of Fort Smith, N.W.T., earlier this week was a heavy equipment operator at a diamond mine who loved playing music and being an uncle, his sister said Friday.
"It's a way of life to get from community to community, because in the region I'm from there are communities that don't have roads so you have to fly in there with smaller planes," says Darlene Sibbeston.
FORT SMITH, N.W.T. - Northerners jump on small charter planes like people in the South would into taxis or buses, says the co-owner of Aunty's Korner Store in Fort Smith, N.W.T., where residents have been gathering to talk about a deadly crash earlier this week.