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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue May 17, 2016, 11:20 AM May 2016

4 dead when plane bound for Charlottesville crashed Monday

4 dead when plane bound for Charlottesville crashed Monday

Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:45 am

AP

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Four people died Monday when a small plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tupelo Regional Airport in Mississippi.

The pilot and three passengers all died when the single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area near a sewage pumping station and the Tupelo Buffalo Park & Zoo. No one on the ground was hurt.

"We don't have any survivors," Tupelo Fire Department public information officer Cathy Gault told The Associated Press.
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FlightAware.com shows that a Beechcraft Bonanza plane, registered to a man in Kerrville, Texas, had flown from there to Tupelo on Sunday. It was scheduled to continue to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday.
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