Five people died Monday in the crash of a small private plane near a highway in Nashville, in the US state of Tennessee (southeast), local police announced.
“Five people on board the plane died in the accident,” Nashville Metropolitan Police said in a message posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
Police also released a photo showing the damaged wreckage of the single-engine plane on an open space off the highway.
For its part, the Nashville Fire Department indicated on the same social network that a “violent fire” was in progress when its men arrived on site.
The pilot of the plane reported an engine and electrical failure around 7:40 p.m. (8:40 p.m. in Quebec), according to Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron, previously quoted by American media.
It was authorized to make an emergency landing at John C. Tune Airport, but it crashed a few kilometers away, the spokesperson said, announcing the opening of an investigation.
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