A STUDENT pilot has been killed after the plane she was flying collided with another aircraft while they were trying to land.

Locals heard “bangs” and saw plumes of thick black smoke following the horror collision in Manitoba, Canada, on Tuesday.

Savanna May Royes, 20, was at the controls of one plane when it collided with another.

She and another student collided when both planes were coming into land at a local flying school.

Savanna was about to receive her pilots license, a family friend posted on Facebook. 

Both pilots were pronounced dead at the scene.

There were no one else on board the two planes – a four-seater Cessna 172, and a Cessna 152 aircraft, which has two seats.

Officials at the flying school do not know how the collision happened.

“We don’t understand how they could get so close together,” Adam Penner, its president, told CBC News.

Nathaniel Plett, who lives near the school, was having a coffee when he heard noises coming from the site.

“I said to my wife ‘That’s a plane crash,” he told CBC.

Plett then recalled seeing plumes of black smoke and he heard loud bangs.

Meanwhile, Lucille Plett, revealed she heard the engine cut out just moments before the crash.

She heard a crackling noise before the plane went silent.

Initially, she didn’t suspect it was anything out of the ordinary before realizing what had happened, as reported by Global Winnipeg.

“I recognized that because sometimes they do stunts around here and they turn the engine off, but they turn it back on,” she said.

“Next thing we heard is a big crash and a big bang… and we knew this isn’t a stunt, this is something serious.”

Savanna’s death comes just two years after she graduated high school.

“We could not be prouder,” mom Loraine gushed in a Facebook post.

“Just like that .. four years of high school completed.

“You worked hard at achieving your goals. We can’t wait to see what awaits you.”