At Least 1 Dead After Small Plane Crashes in Upstate New York

At Least 1 Dead After Small Plane Crashes in Upstate New York
A Mitsubishi Mu-2B in a file photo. Shutterstock
Reuters
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At least one person died after a small plane carrying six people crashed on Saturday afternoon about 50 miles south of New York state capital Albany, the Federal Aviation Administration and police said.

The Mitsubishi MU-2B went down in a muddy field at 12:15 p.m. in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts state line and the plane was bound for the Columbia County Airport, near Hudson, New York, the Columbia County Sheriff’s office said.