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A pilot and passenger have died in a plane crash near an airport in central Alberta.RCMP say they were dispatched to the crash shortly after noon on Saturday, and the plane was located approximately 1.2 kilometres short of the local airport runway in Vermilion, Alta.Police say there were two occupants in the plane – the 46-year-old female pilot who was a resident of Slave Lake, Alta., and a 76-year-old male passenger, a resident of Mannville, Alta.