A pilot and a paramedic were killed Saturday when their small chartered plane crashed on Grand Manan Island, N.B.
Ambulance New Brunswick said the Atlantic Charters flight carrying four people crashed in a wooded area near the airport shortly after 5 a.m.
A second pilot and a registered nurse survived the crash.
A search-and-rescue helicopter was dispatched to the site. Capt. Liam Mather, a defence department spokesman, said one survivor was taken to Grand Manan Hospital.
"The other one's injuries were determined to be too extensive for treatment at Grand Manan so the Cormorant helicopter assisted with a Medivac to Saint John Regional Hospital," he told CBC News.
Grand Manan Island is in the Bay of Fundy near Saint John.
Ambulance New Brunswick said the plane had dropped off a patient at Saint John Regional Hospital and was returning to Grand Manan when it crashed.
There were no patients on board the plane, a Piper PA-31, at the time.
"We are devastated by this incident," Paul Ward, interim president of Ambulance New Brunswick, said in a statement.
The paramedic who died worked for Ambulance New Brunswick and the pilot worked for Atlantic Charters, which has the contract to provide air service to Grand Manan.
Ward said it's too early to say what happened.
Grand Manan Mayor Dennis Green said an investigation is underway.
The Transportation Safety Board is sending two people to the crash site. They will stop at the Saint John hospital to interview the crash survivor before heading to the island, a board spokesman said.
The names of the victims have not been released.
Grand Manan is off Saint John in the Bay of Fundy.
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