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Four people have been killed after a plane struck power lines and plunged into a road in the US.
The small aircraft burst into flames as it crashed into a field and a neighbouring road in central Illinois.
Two men and two women on board the Cessna 180 single-engine plane were killed in the crash at 10:15am yesterday, authorities said.
It was the second fatal aircraft disaster in 24 hours in the country, and one in a long string of plane crashes in recent months.
The plane collided into a set of power lines before tumbling towards the ground, the The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed.
The four person jet struck a field about 200 miles of Chicago, with fiery remnants streaked across a nearby road.
Locals heard the huge explosion as the plane crash unfolded.
Kynnedi Goldstein told CBS News Chicago: ‘I was sitting in my room, and I was getting ready to turn a show on, and all of a sudden I hear this noise.
‘It’s like the whole ‘boom,’ and then our power went out for a second, and then our generator kicked on.
‘And I was just like, ‘What?’ So then I go out to our sunroom, and I look, and there’s a huge pile of smoke.
She and her friend then went to the site of the crash themselves to see what was going on.
The Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB will conduct their own investigation into what happened.
The plane remains strewn across the road on Sunday as these inquiries continue.
The incident comes at the end of a deadly week in US aviation.
At least nine people have been killed in small plane crashes in the last week.
On Friday, three people were killed after a plane plunged into a river in the US.
The small aircraft was flying above the Platte River in Nebraska and crashed into the water south of Fremont at 8.15pm.
On April 12, a small twin-engine plane struck a muddy field in New York, leaving all six people on board dead.
April saw a further host of fatal air disasters in the country.
At least one person has died after the small jet hit the ground near to Propwash Airport in Texas on April 12.
Just hours earlier three people died after a small plane crashed into a highway in Florida.
The Cessna 310R experienced ‘mechanical issues’ before falling from the sky in Boca Raton.
Not long before that a private jet crashed on the way to Mexico from New York.
Footage circulating on social media shows the Gulfstream V long-range aircraft skidding off the runway at Cabo San Lucas International Airport.
Emergency crews then raced to the crash site as smoke rose from the wreckage.
Several families travelling with their children from Brooklyn were on board, but it is understood they all survived.
These incidents comes two days after a fatal helicopter crash in New York City.
A Spanish family of five, including three children, and the pilot were killed after the aircraft plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday.
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