Right next to highway

Small plane crashes in the USA: Occupants dead

Five people have died in a plane crash in the USA. The small private plane crashed on Monday evening during an unsuccessful emergency landing next to a highway in Nashville in the US state of Tennessee.

All five people on board are dead. A photo released by the police showed the wreckage of the single-engine plane. Firefighters were also deployed to extinguish a "large fire" at the scene of the accident.

Police spokesman Don Aaron told US media that the plane had reported an engine and power failure before the crash. The pilot was allowed to make an emergency landing at John C. Tune Airport in Nashville, but the plane crashed a few kilometers from the airport. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launched investigations into the accident.