Plane Crashes in to Family Home Killing 2 People on Board
The Beechcraft Sierra aircraft crashed north of Keene, New Hampshire, just before 7 p.m. Friday.
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A plane crashed into a family home Friday evening near an airport in New Hampshire, killing two passengers on board.
The Federal Aviation Administration told CNN the Beechcraft Sierra aircraft crashed north of Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport just before 7 p.m. Friday.
Authorities in the town of Keene are yet to reveal how many people died in the fiery crash but they did say that no one in the building was killed.
Keene Mayor George Hansel said two people inside the plane were killed but that it was “fortunate” that no one on the ground died as well.
He said Saturday that the investigation was in its early stages and did not provide the names of the people people who died, according the NBC News. He said he didn’t know about how experienced the pilot was.
Emergency vehicles stand on the road outside of a burning building after a plane crashed into a building in Keene, New Hampshire.
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Scott Gauthier, who is a resident of the building that the plane crashed into told the The Keene Sentinel that the multi-family residence is home to 10 people in five different apartments. He said he was home when “something fell and then the building shook.”
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“It sounded like something hit the parking lot in the back, and all I know is my mom went up to check and started screaming, ‘Get out of the house!’,” he told the paper.
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