Six people are dead after a small plane crashed Friday night in the mountains west of Calgary.
RCMP said five passengers and one pilot were onboard the aircraft, which left Springbank Airport near Calgary around 9 p.m. MT en route to Salmon Arm, B.C., for a church function.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Ryan Singleton said that relatives lost contact with passengers on the plane around 9:30 p.m. Hours later, the plane was reported overdue, prompting a Winnipeg-based Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) squadron to conduct a search.
The RCAF crew traced the missing plane’s emergency locator to Mount Bogart in Kananaskis Country, a mountainous area
