WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — 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.
14 October 2016, 21:33 GMT
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.
