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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
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