SHIRLEY, N.Y. (AP) ? A small plane carrying three people plummeted into a residential neighborhood on Long Island on Sunday in a fiery crash, killing one of those aboard as neighbors tried to douse the flames with fire extinguishers and garden hoses, authorities and witnesses said.
The aircraft hit the ground shortly before noon in Shirley, about a mile north of Brookhaven Calabro Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
The front of the plane landed on Helene Avenue, and its tail plunged into a nearby construction trash bin, said Jeff Litwin, who lives on the street a few hundred feet from the crash. He was in his basement when he heard what sounded at first like thunder, but he then heard another explosion, realized it wasn't the weather and went outside.
A neighbor "was trying to put out the fire with a garden hose, but it was too hot and he couldn't get to a person trapped inside," Litwin said by phone.
One person died, and two others were taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center with burns, Suffolk County police said.
Their conditions weren't immediately available. The names of the people in the plane haven't been released, and it wasn't immediately clear whether the pilot was among the injured.
The FAA had no immediate information on the plane, which Litwin described as a propeller plane.
The plane was covered up later Saturday as police and firefighters converged on the crash scene and blocked off the road.
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