The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has released its first update on an investigation into a plane crash near Smithers that left three people dead.
The TSB says the aircraft, which was operated by Lakes District Air Services, was about three hours into an aerial mapping flight when the pilot transmitted a mayday and communication was lost.
CBC News has identified two of the men who died in a small plane crash northeast of Smithers, B.C., on Saturday. The crash killed three people and injured one.
One of the victims was 26-year-old Amir Ilya Sedghi.