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Pa. family escapes when plane hits house
BELL, Pa., A small plane crashed into a house in a rural area near Pittsburgh Saturday, killing two people on board but missing a man inside, fire dispatchers said.
The twin-engine aircraft burst into flames when it hit the home on Route 286 in the small community of Bell, Westmoreland County emergency dispatchers told WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh.
Westmoreland County Public Safety spokesman Dan Stevens said it "could be hours" before the two unidentified victims' bodies could be recovered from the wreckage of the Beech Baron BE-58 aircraft, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Steve Yanko and his dog were in the house when the plane hit about 9:20 a.m. and escaped unharmed, the newspaper said.
The plane had taken off at 9:08 a.m. from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said registration records indicated the plane was owned by Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research in Youngstown. However, Stevens said that firm recently sold it to a buyer he would not identify, the Post-Gazette said.
BELL, Pa., A small plane crashed into a house in a rural area near Pittsburgh Saturday, killing two people on board but missing a man inside, fire dispatchers said.
The twin-engine aircraft burst into flames when it hit the home on Route 286 in the small community of Bell, Westmoreland County emergency dispatchers told WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh.
Westmoreland County Public Safety spokesman Dan Stevens said it "could be hours" before the two unidentified victims' bodies could be recovered from the wreckage of the Beech Baron BE-58 aircraft, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Steve Yanko and his dog were in the house when the plane hit about 9:20 a.m. and escaped unharmed, the newspaper said.
The plane had taken off at 9:08 a.m. from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said registration records indicated the plane was owned by Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research in Youngstown. However, Stevens said that firm recently sold it to a buyer he would not identify, the Post-Gazette said.