Plane Crash near Cat Lake First Nation

The Cat Lake First Nation in Northwestern Ontario is in mourning.

Two residents who ran the band's youth program were killed in a plane crash Friday night along with an experienced pilot from Lockhart Air Services.

The Cat Lake band's search co-ordinator Russell Wesley says Ronald Ombash and Dean Meekis both died in the crash.

Wesley says witnesses reported that the pilot aborted a landing at the Cat Lake airport and then crashed soon after.

OPP and the Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

The former owner of Lockhart Air Services says the pilot had been flying for 25 years, and the crash makes no sense.

The pilot is believed to be from Dryden but OPP have not released any of the names.