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.
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