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Plane With Four People on Board Crashes in Woods

REMOTE AREA

A fire was reported nearby around the same time.

Photos from the South Fork Fire burn scar on July 18, 2024 in Ruidoso, NM.
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A small medical plane carrying four people crashed Thursday in a remote, wooded area of New Mexico. The Beechcraft King Air 90 had departed Roswell Air Center and was headed to Sierra Blanca Regional Airport when it crashed near Ruidoso, in the southern part of the state, at about 4 a.m. local time. Around the same time, a fire was reported in the nearby Capitan Mountain area. Emergency personnel, fire officials, and law enforcement were responding as of Thursday morning. It wasn’t immediately clear whether there were any survivors. The Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the FAA said.

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