WPRO News and the Associated Press
Police say a small plane has crashed into the yard of a house in Plainville, with the resulting fire from the crash destroying the house.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman Dave Procopio says the home’s residents managed to escape after the crash. The family of three on the plane — two adults and one juvenile, hailing from Tennessee — were killed.
Next door neighbor, Mary O’Rourke, 16, said she was on her family’s back deck when the plane crashed.
“It sounded like a bomb,” said O’Rourke “And when it hit I could feel the heat on my face.”
Jim Peters of the Federal Aviation Administration says the Beechcraft BE36 aircraft crashed into the house at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday. It had taken off from Lancaster Airport in Pennsylvania and was headed to an airport in Norwood, Massachusetts.
According to the Associated Press, the pilot of the plane told air traffic control he had no engine power.
Federal investigators are on-scene to collect evidence and determine why the plane fell from the sky, but their preliminary report could take up to two weeks to complete.
A Gofundme.com page has been set up to help the family displaced by the accident.
