A Civil Air Patrol plane crashed during a training exercise in northern Colorado on Saturday, killing two people and injuring another person, authorities said.

The plane that crashed near Storm Mountain on Saturday was a Civil Air Patrol aircraft out of the Thompson Valley Composite Squadron, according to a news release from the governor's office Saturday evening.

Two people were killed and one was injured when a U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado's front range on Saturday.A "small passenger plane" with three people on board crashed near Storm Mountain and Palisade Mountain west of Loveland around 11:15 a.