6 people dead in Tuesday's plane crash near Fort Smith, N.W.T., says coroner
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Six people died in a plane crash Tuesday near Fort Smith, N.W.T., the territory's coroner service has confirmed.
On Wednesday morning, the coroner's service said four passengers and two Northwestern Air Lease crew members had been killed.
One person survived and has been transported to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife.
Fort Smith, a town of about 2,250, is located about 740 kilometres south of Yellowknife, just north of the Alberta border.
In an interview, chief coroner Garth Eggenberger said his team waited until today to announce the number of survivors and deceased because they wanted to be "absolutely sure of the numbers" and wanted to notify their families first.
He added his team is in Fort Smith and will be working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and RCMP to investigate the crash.
Though Eggenberger said his team would be sharing more information when they're ready, he added the full investigation could take upwards of a year.
His report should be done within a year, he noted, but his office has to wait for the TSB to issue its final report before finalizing his own.
Fort Smith's recreation centre is open for anyone who doesn't want to be alone, the town said in a news release.
"We understand that you may not wish to be alone right now, that you may want to talk about it with others that are experiencing the same feelings of grief and trauma," the mayor and council said in a statement issued Wednesday morning.
"So feel free to drop by for a hot beverage and some conversation."
The statement said the mayor and council are "deeply saddened" by the losses.
"These people are treasured members of our community and their loss touches everyone," they wrote.
Eggenberger said he, too, would encourage people to go down to the recreation centre and sit down with a counsellor there.
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