Four people have died in a plane crash south of St. Theresa Point First Nation on Saturday night.

Two 50-year-old women and two men aged 53 and 49 have died. The four were passengers in a bush plane flying from St. Theresa Point to Makepeace Lake in northern Manitoba. The pilot, a 20-year-old man, survived with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. There were no other survivors.

The aircraft, a float-equipped DeHavilland DHC-2 (Beaver), went down about 40 kilometres south of St. Theresa Point at about 6:40 p.m. Saturday, a spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada stated in an email.

The Transportation Safety Board was still gathering information about the crash on Sunday afternoon and hadn’t made a decision to deploy personnel to the scene, spokesperson Nic Defalc

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