2 Dead When Small Aircraft Crashes In Indiana

A private jet crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighborhood, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighborhood, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane, authorities said.

The crash injured two other people aboard the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet and one person on the ground, South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said late Sunday.

The jet had left Tulsa, Okla.’s Riverside Airport and crashed late Sunday afternoon near South Bend Regional Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig in Oklahoma City said.

Firefighters and rescue workers look over the scene in South Bend, Indiana in this March 17, 2013 photo courtesy WNDU-TV after a small twin-jet aircraft crashed into houses near the South Bend Regional Airport.

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