3 people from Laval, Que., killed in small plane crash in Ohio

Three group killed Friday erstwhile a mini level collapsed while trying to make an emergency landing astatine an airdrome successful northeastern Ohio person been identified as Quebec residents.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says nan 54-year-old aviator Jawdat Khawam and his 2 passengers Martine Arseneault, 45, and Daphne Khawam, 8, were each from Laval, Que.

The twin-engine Beechcraft 60 went down adjacent nan Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport astatine astir 6:45 p.m. Friday, nan Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday.

The Western Reserve Port Authority says nan level had travel from Plattsburgh, N.Y., but officials didn’t instantly cognize wherever it was headed.

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The larboard authority says it appeared nan plane’s near motor had failed, and it missed nan attack to onshore and circled backmost to attack again but went retired of power and collapsed adjacent nan northbound extremity of nan runway.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.

— With files from The Associated Press