Three Canadians killed in crash of private plane in US State of Pennsylvania

  19 October 2016    Read: 1107
Three Canadians killed in crash of private plane in US State of Pennsylvania
Authorities of the US state of Pennsylvania confirmed that three people were killed in the crash of a Canada-bound private plane.
Three people were confirmed dead in the crash of a Canada-bound private plane in the US state of Pennsylvania, local media reported Tuesday.

Authorities searching for crash debris Monday night, a day after contact with the plane had been lost, found wreckage in the rural northwestern Pennsylvania community of Keating Summit, the Leader-Enterprise newspaper reported.

The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee with three people aboard, departed Sunday from the US state of Virginia for the Canadian province of Ontario. The pilot changed course to avoid a storm but the plane lost radio contact soon after takeoff.

A coroner in Pennsylvania confirmed that the pilot and both passengers were from Canada. The US Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

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