The Yukon Coroner’s Service has identified two Alaska residents killed when their small plane crashed in Whitehorse.
Fifty-six-year-old Charles Benson of Palmer, Alaska and 58-year-old Jeffrey Babcock of Wasilla, Alaska died in the Monday crash.
Their Anchorage-bound Cessna had just taken off from the Whitehorse airport when it clipped trees, crashed and burned.
The men were returning to Alaska after purchasing the single-engine, 1952 Cessna 170B in Minnesota.
A cause of the crash has yet to be determined.
The Transportation Safety Board, RCMP and Yukon Coroner’s Service continue to investigate.