Plane crashes into Boston home killing 3 aboard; residents escape

June 29, 2015 20:38

A small Beechcraft BE36 airplane crashed into the house 30 miles southwest of Boston Sunday afternoon. Although the house immediately caught fire, the residents were able to escpae and were unharmed.

All three people onboard the airplane, a Beechcraft "Bonanza", are reported killed, police said.The aircraft had departed from Lancaster Pennsylvania airport and was headed to Norwood Memorial Airport in Massachusetts, said Jim Peters of the federal Aviation Administration in the Boston Globe interview.

Enroute, the general aviation aircraft crashed about 5:45 pm, striking the Victorian two-story house near Boston, he said.

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