A plane crashed in a Conn. neighborhood a few blocks from Tweed New Haven Airpot, killing up to six people, officials said.
According to NBC Connecticut, a small, propeller-driven plane crashed into two houses, bursting into flames. Officials said three people were missing after the crash, the pilot and two children. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said they believe there were two passengers on the plane. A mother and her two kids were reportedly in the home at the time of the crash.
"National Transportation Safety Board investigator Robert Gretz said Friday night there were unconfirmed casualty reports of two or three people in the plane and two or three people in one of the homes," NBC reports. "He said local and state authorities were at the scene looking for victims."
East Haven fire Chief Douglas Jackson told reports Friday afternoon: "We haven't recovered anybody at this point, and we presume there is going to be a very bad outcome."
Rescuers found two bodies two hours after the crash, but were not able to immediately recover them. According to Mayor Joseph Maturo, the houses were not stable, and rescuers did not complete a fuel search on Friday night.
"It's ... total devastation in the back of the home," Maturo said.
There have been no official confirmation or positive identification of the bodies found. However, CNN reports the two bodies found are that of the pilot Bill Henningsgaard, former Microsoft president, and his son.
According to NBC, Tweed's airport manager Lori Hoffman-Soares said, "the pilot had been in communication with air traffic control and hadn't issued any distress calls."
Pablo Arenas, a neighbor, told NBC "he and his neighbors live in fear of the planes. He said some pilots appear to be novices in training, while others said planes often fly low and larger aircraft have begun using the airport in recent years."
You can check out footage of the crash in the video below.
