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Six people died and a lone survivor was taken to hospital after a 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.

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — A passenger plane crashed early Tuesday near the town of Fort Smith, N.W.T., near the Alberta boundary. The coroner's office says six people have died and one person was taken to hospital.

Four passengers and two crew members from Northwestern Air Lease were killed in the Tuesday morning crash.

We are absolutely devastated, Rio Tinto said in a statement. It is not yet known how many people were on board the plane or how many died

Four passengers and two aircraft crew were killed when a plane heading to Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine crashed. One person survived.

Search ongoing after plane with Rio Tinto workers went down after takeoff

Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canadas Northwest Territories is six

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.

Sole survivor of chartered flight headed to Rio Tinto diamond mine taken to Yellowknife hospital

Six people died and a lone survivor was taken to hospital after a plane crashed shortly after taking off from the airport in Fort Smith, a town of some