Spokesman Jon Lee says the single-engine Cessna 170 crashed into trees shortly after taking off from the airport in Whitehorse on Monday afternoon. WHITEHORSE—The Transportation Safety Board says two people have died in a plane crash in Yukon. Lee says it happened about 600 metres from the end of the runway, and that there was a fire afterward. He says neither of the plane’s two occupants survived. The privately registered aircraft had been on its way to Anchorage, Alaska.

Source: thestar May 28, 2019 03:33 UTC