A number of individuals have died after a single-engine airplane crashed close to a monument in honour of the pioneering US flyers, the Wright brothers.
The plane went down at round 5pm on Saturday, native time, on the Wright Brothers Nationwide Memorial in Outer Banks, North Carolina.
The US Nationwide Park Service, quoting eyewitnesses, mentioned the airplane was attempting to land on the First Flight Airport however crashed.
The airplane caught fireplace after the crash, the service mentioned, earlier than being extinguished by the Kill Satan Hills Hearth Division and different native fireplace departments.
The airport is closed till additional discover, with the memorial closed on Sunday.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board will examine the incident and the Federal Aviation Administration has additionally been knowledgeable.
Outer Banks is a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia on the east coast of the US.
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing, constructing, and flying the world’s first profitable airplane.
They made the primary managed, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air plane with the Wright Flyer in December 1903, touchdown close to the memorial in Kill Satan Hills.
