One dead after plane crashes near airport close to Boston.
A small plane crashed and left one person dead and another critically injured near a regional airport not far from Boston.
A Mooney M20 aircraft crashed on Sam Fonzo Drive close to Beverly Regional Airport in Massachusetts around 8.45am on Thursday.
Two men were trapped inside, said Beverly Police Chief John LeLacheur.
One of them died in the crash and the other was airlifted to a hospital.
The identities of the passengers were not immediately released.
No one was injured on the ground.
‘The preliminary information we have is the plane crashed under unknown circumstances,’ stated the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
An NTSB investigator was expected to get to the scene in the afternoon, and the plane will be taken to a facility to be evaluated.
Witnesses told WBZ-TV that they saw a puff of smoke before the plane dropped – possibly a sign of an engine failure.
The plane appeared to be broken into two pieces, with a large portion partly on the road and against a pole by the sidewalk. The other piece was in the tree line.
Officials are seeking to recover crash footage.
‘It’s a holiday, there’s not a lot of businesses open right now,’ said Lelacheur at the scene.
‘We’re going to go through footage when we can with the various businesses when they open, bring some people in and then, obviously, do some follow up tomorrow.’
The plane departed Beverly and was flying toward Ticonderoga Municipal Airport, which is roughly 100 miles north of Albany, New York, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
It had a fixed wing and had four seats, according to the NTSB.
Beverly is about 25 miles northeast of Boston.
The small plane crash happened a week after an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed near Ahmedabad airport shortly after takeoff, killing all but one passenger on board.
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