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Multiple Dead in Plane Crash Near Wright Brothers Memorial

‘TOO LOW’

“At the beginning, I thought he was really high, and all of a sudden, he just went down a little too quick,” said an eyewitness who saw the plane lose altitude.

The North Carolina monument commemorating the Wright Brother historic first flight.
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Multiple people were killed Saturday in a single-engine plane crash near a North Carolina monument dedicated to the Wright brothers, the pioneering American inventors credited with building the world’s first successful airplane.

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