4 dead in small plane crash in NY’s Adirondack Mountains

The small single-engine plane went down in a wooded area northwest of the airport just minutes after taking off. The lakeside hamlet of tourist lodges, campsites and outdoors-oriented establishments is about 50 miles south of the Canadian border.

The plane, a Piper PA-46, was scheduled to land at the Rochester global Airport but never made it.

The crash site was in the woods on property owned by Paul Smiths College.

Officers don’t know the crash’s cause, and also the kind of airplane wasn’t introduced.

At this time, the identities of the people who perished in the crash have not been released, and officials do not know what caused the plane to go down.

He said there was “no distress call, no contact with air traffic control”.

He says the plane was registered to someone in the Rochester area.

Meantime, investigators say they’ll spend days combing through the scene before removing and storing the plane.

Gretz believes the pilot was headed back to Rochester when the plane crashed.

State police said Saturday the aircraft was destroyed and the four dead were located among the wreckage. State police said the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration were investigating. “There was a significant post-crash fire”. “That’s how we found out”.

“We found [the plane] together in the sense that it wasn’t strewn out over hundreds of yards”, Gretz said.

That was around 6:30 p.m., Hurwitch said.

Private aircraft continued taking off and landing after the crash.

Last night, state police were assisted by the New York Encon Police, New York Forest Rangers, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, and the Office of Emergency Services.

Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call state police at 518-897-2000.

The Enterprise will report further from the scene as information becomes available.