Three dead as small plane crashes into Tokyo suburb

[WorldNews]

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Three people were killed Sunday when a small plane crashed into a Tokyo suburb shortly after takeoff, police said, leaving nearby homes and cars ablaze and the charred remains of the fuselage lying in a burnt-out residence. The single-engine propeller aircraft with a 36-year-old pilot and four passengers on board crashed at around 11:00 am (0200 GMT) shortly after leaving Chofu airport on the outskirts of the Japanese capital, public broadcaster NHK reported. "Two people from the airplane are confirmed dead and a person believed to be a local resident has also died," a spokesman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department told AFP.

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