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Friday, August 09, 2013

Plane Hits Connecticut Homes: Three Missing (Video & Photos)

By Susan Duclos

A a small plane has crashed near a Connecticut airport on Friday, leaving three people, including two children missing.

East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo says the missing include the one person on the plane and two children in the house, ages 1 and 13. The city's fire chief, Douglas Jackson, says officials "presume there is going to be a very bad outcome."

The multi-engine, propeller-driven plane struck two small homes a few blocks from Tweed New Haven Airport as it came in for a landing.