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

Two people were killed and one was hurt in a plane crash involving a Civil Air Patrol plane in Larimer County Saturday.

A U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in the mountains near Drake on Saturday, resulting in an unknown number of casualties, according to the agency.

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 persons were on Saturday killed and one other seriously injured in a Civil Air Patrol plane crash in Colorado, United States. The occupants of the Cessna 182 were participating in a search and rescue training exercise when the plane went down in a wooded area of Larimer County, the Civil Air Patrol confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The nonprofit Civil Air Patrol is the official auxiliary of the US Air Force. In Colorado, Civil Air Patrol missions include search-and-rescue efforts for lost hikers and hunters, locating downed aircraft, and transporting emergency personnel and medical materials.

Two people are dead and one is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado on Saturday while on a training mission, officials said. The crash on Storm Mountain, about 80 miles north of Denver, was reported shortly after 11 a.m., the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Saturday night.

Few details were immediately available, but a plane with three people on board crashed near Storm Mountain and Palisade Mountain west of Loveland around 11:15 a.m., according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.

Two people were killed and a third was injured when a U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado's Front Range Saturday morning.

Two people were killed and one was hurt in a plane crash involving a Civil Air Patrol plane in Larimer County Saturday.