Two pilots are dead after their small planes collided mid-air Tuesday morning in southern Manitoba.
RCMP are holding a news conference about the crash at 1:30 p.m. CT in the division headquarters in Winnipeg. CBC News will livestream the news conference here and on CBC Gem.
The crash happened around 8:45 a.m. in the rural municipality of Hanover, south of Steinbach.
RCMP say the bodies of the pilots were found in the wreckage of the single-engine planes.
There were no passengers aboard.
Adam Penner, president of Harv’s Air flying school, said the crash involved students and happened during a training exercise.
No information on the ages or the sex of the pilots has been released.
The Transportation Safety Board said it has deployed a team of investigators to the scene.
