{"id":760879,"date":"2026-06-25T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:49:10","slug":"plane-fighting-wildfires-with-3-on-board-crashes-in-northwest-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760879\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane fighting wildfires with 3 on board crashes in Northwest Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YELLOWKNIFE \u2014 A small plane carrying three people fighting fires in the Northwest Territories has crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties haven\u2019t said if anyone on board survived.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Wednesday night about 50 kilometres from Fort Simpson, west of Yellowknife.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say officers were able to reach the site and have launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>They say the aircraft is a Turbo Commander 960 Bird Dog, which is typically used as an airborne command centre to co-ordinate firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Transportation Safety Board investigators have been called in.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YELLOWKNIFE \u2014 A small plane carrying three people fighting fires in the Northwest Territories has crashed. Mounties haven\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-760879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}