Five Dead After Small Plane Crashes Near US Highway

Five people were killed on Monday when a small private plane crashed near a highway in Nashville in the US state of Tennessee, according to local police.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a post on social platform X that “5 persons on board the airplane perished in the crash”.

It also posted a picture of the mangled wreckage of the single-engine plane.

The Nashville Fire Department said on X that there was a “heavy fire” when its responders arrived on the scene.

Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron was quoted by US media as saying the plane had reported engine and power failure.

It was cleared for an emergency landing at Nashville’s John C. Tune Airport, but came down just a few kilometres from the airport.

He said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash