SALINA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in western Pennsylvania say the twin-engine plane that crashed into a house and killed the two men aboard was on a certification flight.
Westmoreland County spokesman Dan Stevens says the bodies of the two men were found after the plane was unearthed from the wreckage of the home on Route 286 in Bell Township in a rural section of the county about 90 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Stevens says officials believe only two people were aboard the aircraft, which had just recently been purchased. He says autopsies are planned for Sunday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the BE58 Beech Baron took off from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., at 9:08 a.m. Saturday and crashed into the house 11 minutes later, narrowly missing a man who sleeping on a couch with his dog and setting the house on fire.
