PRESCOTT — Authorities say a small plane crashed and burned Monday afternoon at the Prescott Municipal Airport, killing both people aboard, after it developed problems minutes after takeoff.
A spokesman for the Prescott Fire Department confirmed the fatalities. The identities of the two victims weren't immediately known.
Authorities said the Piper Comanche was registered to a Los Angeles resident, but it wasn't immediately clear if that person was aboard the aircraft.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the single-engine plane had left the airport for an unknown destination at 2:48 p.m. when it experienced "some kind of problem," and the pilot radioed the airport that he needed to return.
Gregor said the plane crashed short of a runaway at about 2:50 p.m.
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Television footage showed the charred remains of the plane in a grassy area at the east end of one the airport's runways.
