4-Year-Old Boy, Grandparents Survive Illinois Plane Crash

A firefighter checks the inside of a small single engine plane that crashed on March 12, 2019. Colter Peterson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

WATERLOO, Ill.—Authorities say a 4-year-old boy and his grandparents were rescued after their small plane crashed in southern Illinois.

The fixed-wing single-engine Piper PA-32 was traveling from Mobile, Alabama, when it went down Tuesday in rural Monroe County on its way to St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois.