Port McNeill on north Vancouver Island is in mourning after a pilot from the area died while flying a helicopter Tuesday — a crash that also killed one passenger and critically injured another.

A man in his 70s has died following a two-car crash near an airport.

VSP said Tuesday afternoon that Roland A. Babcock Jr., 78, of Ruther Glen, Va., was the only person on board the single-engine plane when it went down around 11:05 a.m.