Ottawa

Six people were killed in a plane crash west of Calgary in Canada’s Alberta province, media reports said. The plane took off from Springbank Airport at around 8:45 pm.

Police said the plane went missing about 30 minutes after taking off for Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The wreckage of the plane was found at around 7:30 a.m. On Saturday in a mountainous area about 100 km west of Calgary and all six bodies have been recovered, Xinhua news agency reported.

Police said there were five passengers and a pilot on board the plane. The dead have not been identified yet and the cause of the accident is also not yet known.