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 Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing all four people on board, the tribe said.

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.