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The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal ºÃÉ«tv Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

VERMILION - A pilot and passenger have died in a plane crash near an airport in central Alberta.

RCMP say they were dispatched to the crash shortly after noon on Saturday, and the plane was located approximately 1.2 kilometres short of the local airport runway in Vermilion, Alta.

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