Three dead after plane crashes into Massachusetts house

A plane crashed into this Plainville, Massachusetts home Sunday. — (Image credit: Twitter.com/BostonGlobe)

A small private plane crashed into a home in Plainville, Massachusetts, on Sunday, killing the pilot and both passengers on board.

An unknown number of people inside the house were able to escape unharmed, officials said. A three-alarm fire broke out following the crash, and fire departments from various southeastern Massachusetts towns came to battle the blaze, The Boston Globe reports. Federal Aviation Administration officials said the plane left Lancaster Airport in Pennsylvania and was headed to Norwood Memorial Airport in Massachusetts. The cause of the accident is not yet known.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.