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17 Die as Plane Crashes Into Montana Cemetery

Children among dead when turboprop falls short of Butte airport

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(Newser) – Seventeen people died in Butte, Mont., today when a single-engine plane crashed in a cemetery and burst into flames, the Montana Standard reports. Several children were among the victims, who boarded this morning in Orville, Calif., en route to Bozeman. The pilot changed route mid-flight and landed about 500 feet short of Butte's Bert Mooney Airport, an FAA spokesman said.

"All of a sudden the pilot lost control and went into a nosedive," said a teen who lives near the airport. "He couldn't pull out in time and crashed into the trees of the cemetery. It looked like a stunt plane." No injuries were reported on the ground.

A Pilatus PC12, the same make of plane that crash-landed in Butte, Mont. today, killing 17.
A Pilatus PC12, the same make of plane that crash-landed in Butte, Mont. today, killing 17.   (Wikipedia)
A fire burns inside the Holy Cross Cemetery after a small, singe-engine plane crashed in an area just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont. on Sunday, March 22, 2009.
A fire burns inside the Holy Cross Cemetery after a small, singe-engine plane crashed in an area just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont. on Sunday, March 22, 2009.   (AP Photo/The Montana Standard, Martha Guidoni)
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