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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Fresno-Visalia, CAA single-engine aircraft crashed in the front yard of a home in Central California on Thursday, killing two people on board.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a Cessna 172 plane crashed at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, approximately 800 feet west of a runway at Fresno’s Chandler Airport.
The plane hit a tree before crashing, authorities said, and caught fire on impact. No one on the ground was injured.
A Fresno Fire Department spokesman says the two victims were the adult male pilot and a boy, about 9 years old.
Their names were not released.