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

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.