AUGUSTA, Maine - A team of game wardens in northwest Maine was trying to reach the site of a small plane crash Monday near the Quebec border that killed one man and sent another to hospital.
Steve McCausland of the Maine Public Safety Department says the four-seat Diamond DA-40 left Halifax en route to Quebec earlier in the day.
He says the plane might have been on its return flight when it went down in Somerset County during a blizzard.
McCausland says the crash survivor was flown to a hospital in Quebec by a Canadian search and rescue aircraft.
He says game wardens were using co-ordinates from Canadian rescuers to help locate the crash site, which is located in a remote area accessible only by logging roads.
Once found, McCausland says state police will arrive to secure the site and a U.S. transportation agency will investigate the crash.
The cause of the crash remains unknown, but McCausland says the pilot had radioed that the plane was icing up and he was going to try to land at an airstrip in Maine.
The names of the two people and where they are from wasn't immediately available.
