Plane Crashes Onto Busy New Jersey Highway
Small plane headed to Suburban Atlanta from New Jersey crashed onto an interstate shortly after takeoff Tuesday, killing five people, authorities said.
Two men, one woman, two children and a dog aboard the plane died in the crash in Morris town, New Jersey, just after 10 a.m. ET, said a senior air safety investigator Robert Gretz, with the National Transportation Safety Board.
The plane, a six-seater Socata TBM700, was headed from Teterboro, New Jersey, to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in suburban Atlanta when it crashed onto Interstate 287 about 14 minutes into the flight, Gretz said.
The plane was at about 17,500 feet when "there was some discussion between the pilot and the controller of locations of icing conditions," he said.
He told reporters Monday night the conversation seemed "routine" and was "not a distress call."
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