At least one person has been confirmed dead after a plane crashed at a regional airport in the US. The crash happened at Marana Regional Airport in Arizona, and police and other emergency services are at the scene.<\/p>\n
Marana Police Department said in a statement that the National Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash is still unknown, and the number of passengers and crew on board the flight is yet to be confirmed. A local news outlet is reporting that two planes were involved in the incident, but this is also unconfirmed.<\/p>\n
Marana Police confirmed in a statement: \u2018The Marana Police Department is currently on-scene at the Marana Regional Airport located at 11700 W. Avra Valley Rd. in reference to an aircraft collision.<\/p>\n
\u2018There has been at least 1 confirmed deceased individual. Details are limited at this time.<\/p>\n
\u2018Media staging will be in the large dirt parking lot outside of the Marana Regional Airport. FAA and NTSB will be responding.\u2019<\/p>\n
Marana airport is uncontrolled, meaning it does not have an air traffic control tower.<\/p>\n
There have been four major aviation mishaps in North America in the past month.<\/p>\n
A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near Washington DC on January 29, killing 67 people, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground, 10 were killed in a plane crash in Alaska, and 21 people were injured when a Delta Airlines plane crashed in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Aviation safety has been a hot topic in recent weeks after US president Donald Trump fired hundreds of air traffic controllers in the wake of the Washington DC crash.<\/p>\n
Metro has contacted Marana Police Department for more details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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