These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others, and their loss is felt deeply across the Navajo Nation,” Buu Nygren, the Navajo Nation president, wrote in a statement.

A medical transport plane, en route to pick up a patient, tragically crashed and caught fire near the Chinle Municipal Airport in Arizona, resulting in the deaths of all four individuals aboard. The devastating incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon,

A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people.