Pilot and passenger die in plane crash near Vermilion

A pilot and passenger have died in a plane crash near an airport in central Alberta.

RCMP were dispatched to the crash shortly after noon on Saturday. The plane was located approximately 1.2 kilometers short of the local airport runway in Vermilion.

Police say there were two occupants in the plane — the 46-year-old female pilot who was a resident of Slave Lake, and a 76-year-old male passenger, a resident of Mannville.