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yuiyoshida

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Mon Jul 27, 2015, 07:39 AM Jul 2015

Small plane crashes in Tokyo neighborhood; 3 dead, 3 survive

Source: AP NEWS



By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) - A small plane crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo on Sunday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a woman on the ground, while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials said.

The single-engine propeller plane plowed into and set ablaze a row of houses just minutes after taking off from an airport used by small aircraft in Tokyo's western suburb of Chofu.

Television footage showed a mangled plane, broken up with its tail upside down, resting on a crushed car in a residential lot as dozens of firefighters battled the blaze and treated the victims.

The roofs of the two houses next to the site were also damaged.

Read more: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29633737/small-plane-crashes-in-tokyo-neighborhood-3-dead-3-survive

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Small plane crashes in Tokyo neighborhood; 3 dead, 3 survive (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jul 2015 OP
That anyone survived that crash is amazing. n/t Gormy Cuss Jul 2015 #1
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