2 Student pilots killed in collision in the air in Canada:

Two pilot students died on Tuesday morning when their single -engine aircraft crashed into the air in Steinbach’s air, in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Adam Penner, president of the Harv Air Pilot Training School, said the two were practicing takeoffs and landings in small Cessna airplanes. He said they seemed to have tried to land at the same time and collided a few hundred meters from the small track.

He said the airplanes are equipped with radios, but it seems that the two pilots did not see themselves.

The police are releasing few details, but said the pilots were declared dead on the scene and that there were no passengers. The Royal Canadian police could not confirm the identities of the victims during a afternoon press conference.

“I don’t have that information,” said Manitoba RCMP CPL. Melanie Roussel. “At this time there is really limited information.”

However, a family member identified one of the pilots as Savanna of 20 years May Royes in a statement to CBC News, calling her “the essence of pure joy.”

“Savanna’s faith and laughter will play forever to all those who were lucky to have met her, during her short life,” the family said in the statement.

Penner said the flight school, that his parents began in the early 1970s, has students from Canada and around the world training for professional and recreational purposes. The school trains about 400 student pilots a year.

“For more than 51 years, we have been offering the best flight training in the safest and most pleasant way,” says the school on its website.

Nathaniel Plett, who lives near the flight school, told CBC News that he and his wife heard a strong explosion on Tuesday morning.

“I told my wife: ‘That is a plane crash,” Plett told CBC News. “A black smoke pillar approached, and a little later [we] I heard another explosion, and there was a touch of even bigger black smoke. “

The Canada Transport Security Board has been notified.

Steinbach is about 42 miles south of Winnipeg, the provincial capital.

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