At least one dead after the private plane crashes into the state of New York
A plane crashed into a field on Saturday near the city of Copake, New York, leaving at least one dead, according to the office of the County Sheriff of Columbia.
The plane, a MU-2B Mitsubishi directed at the County County Airport near Hudson, New York, transported two passengers and crashed a little after noon, according to a note the Federal Aviation Administration.
The plane went close to two cities and did not damage any structure, the subshera Jacqueline Salvatore told journalists A press conference on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Salvatore did not say how many people had been killed or if they had survived. The two passengers were not identified.
A private plane of the same model left Westchester’s County Airport in White Plains, New York, shortly after 11:30, flying north towards Hudson before turning east around Mezzogiorno, according to the FlightTradar24 tracking site. A few minutes later, the craftsmanship disappeared from the site near Copake, a small town on the border with the Taconic State Park near the border with Massachusetts.
That plan was recorded in a company based outside of Boston, according to Faa Records.
Mrs. Salvatore said that, in addition to the officers of the Sheriff Department, the staff of the New York State Police and a local firefighters department responded to the scene. Law enforcement officials received a 911 call on the accident at noon, he said.
At that time, the time in the area was mostly mild, with cloudy skies and gusts of wind up to 26 miles per hour, According to the National Weather Service.
The snow and humidity on the ground were hindering response efforts, said Mrs. Salvatore.
“It is in the middle of a field and it is quite muddy, so accessibility is difficult,” he said.
Saturday afternoon it was not immediately clear what the crash of the plane caused, said Mrs. Salvatore, but the local law enforcement agencies planned to conduct interviews in the neighborhood to find out more.
Faa and National Transportation Safety Board are also investigating the accident, according to the declaration of the Aviation Agency.
