Weekend aircraft crashes near Lacombe, Westlock leave 1 person dead, at least 4 in hospital
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Transportation Safety Board investigators are looking into Saturday's crash near Lacombe that left one person dead as well as another crash Sunday morning near Westlock.
Transportation Safety Board investigators are looking into a pair of unrelated aircraft crashes in central Alberta over the Thanksgiving weekend.
A male pilot is dead and his male passenger is in hospital with serious injuries after an aircraft went down Saturday afternoon northeast of Lacombe, Alta.
Blackfalds RCMP say officers responded to a distress beacon from an aircraft near Range Road 241 and Township Road 412.
Mounties say the male pilot was found dead at the scene. His passenger was taken to an Edmonton-area hospital.
The TSB couldn't yet specify what type of aircraft was involved, describing it only as "small."
In a seperate crash, Westlock RCMP responded to a plane crash at the Westlock airport in Clyde, about 90 kilometres north of Edmonton just after 11 a.m. Sunday morning.
Mounties say the plane had flipped and sustained serious damage. Police did not have details on how badly the four people on board were injured.
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