A small plane crashed to the ground in Northwest China's Shannxi Province on Wednesday morning, resulting in two dead, local authorities confirmed.

The accident happened when the light plane, belonged to Shaanxi Phoenix Internaitonal Flying College, was conducting a flight training mission in Qianyang, Baoji city, killing both two persons onboard.

Pictures showed the front and back of the fuselage as severely damaged, with the wing tips broken, and the crashed aircraft in a farmland near Qianyang county of Baoji city.

Two people on board were found dead following the accident without involving anyone on the ground.

Further details were not immediately available, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

Phoenix Flying College, founded in March 2010, is a professional pilot training institution, which now has 58 aircraft, including 39 Diamond DA40s, 13 DA42s, four DA40F and two Cessna 525s.