The four people killed when a medical transport plane crashed near Chinle Airport on the afternoon of Aug. 5 were honored in a procession of Navajo police officers and Apache County sheriff’s deputies the morning after the tragic incident.

The small, dual-propeller aircraft was heading to pick up a patient from a nearby hospital when it crashed and caught on fire about 12:40 p.m. on Aug. 5, police said.

Navajo police posted on its Facebook page the morning of Aug. 6 that the four were taken to Green Meadows Funeral Home in St. Michaels near the Arizona-New Mexico Border and roughly 40 miles southeast of Chinle.

Here's what to know.

What made the plane crash?

It was not immediately clear what caused the plane to crash. The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the in

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