2 dead, 2 injured in plane crash on Vancouver Island's west coast: police

Two people are dead and two injured after a plane crashed on Vancouver Island’s west coast, according to first responders.

Mounties said in a release Wednesday that Nootka Sound RCMP were notified of a plane crash in the Tahsis Inlet near Mizona Point, a remote area around 300 kilometres northwest of Victoria, around 2 p.m. PT Tuesday.

RCMP said four people were on board the aircraft, which the federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) identified as a single-propeller Quest Kodiak 100.

Mounties said the plane was flying from Masset on Haida Gwaii, around 600 kilometres northwest of the crash site, to Tofino.

The small municipality of Tahsis is located at the head of the Tahsis inlet.

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