In the small, working-class town of East Haven, Connecticut, three people are missing after a propeller plane crashed around 11:25 EST this morning. Two of the missing are children, ages 1 and 13, who were in one of the houses. The other is the pilot of the plane, and all three are feared dead.
The plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, was coming from Teterboro New Jersey, and was only a few blocks from the Tweed New Haven airport when it hit the two houses. The Tweed airport manager Lori Hoffman-Soares reported that there was no distress signal from the pilot, who was communicating regularly. But neighbors heard no engine noise before the plane hit, and by the time firefighters got to the scene of the crash, both houses were in flames, according to CBS News. Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy told the press that two bodies have been spotted in the wreckage, but are not yet recovered.
Deputy Fire Chief Tony Moscato said that “The search is ongoing,” writes Reuters, but the Fire Chief, Douglas Jackson, said that he assumed “there is going to be a very bad outcome.”
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