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Wednesday August 9 10:05 AM ET

Two Small Planes Crash in N.J. Suburbs, 3 Dead

BURLINGTON, N.J. (Reuters) - Two small twin-engine planes collided over a New Jersey suburb on Wednesday, killing three people and sending one of the aircraft crashing into a home, federal authorities said.

The mishap occurred shortly after 8 a.m. EDT in Burlington Township, which lies along the Delaware River about midway between Trenton and Philadelphia.

There was no immediate word on the flights' origins or destinations.

But the FAA confirmed that the two planes had collided, and said the three people killed were all believed to be from the aircraft. Burlington Township police said a married couple in the home was not injured.

``We don't have any reported fatalities on the ground. That would mean these would have to be from the aircraft. We just don't know yet from which aircraft,'' said FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac.

One of the planes was a Piper Navajo PA-31 registered to Tygress Air Inc. of California, Maryland, the FAA said. The second plane was believed to be a Piper Seminole PA-44 but its registration was not immediately known.

News footage broadcast on local television showed firefighters dousing a large upscale suburban home with a shattered and charred roof, while the crumpled white fuselage of a small plane lay in a nearby field.

The FAA said investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were on their way to the site from a regional office in Parsippany, New Jersey.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), August 09, 2000

Answers

Rachel, Oops...sorry, I posted this story this morning as a new story instead of an update.

Thank you for excellent posts.

Dee :)

-- (Dee360degree@aol.com), August 10, 2000.

Dee, not a prob! Just keep on doing the great job you're doing. :)

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), August 11, 2000.