Plane Crash in Montana 17 Dead

UTTE, Mont. - A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

The single engine turboprop plane crashed about 500 feet (152 meters) from the airport in Butte while attempting to land, said spokesman Mike Fergus. The Montana Standard reported in an online story that it crashed in Butte's Holy Cross Cemetery.

The aircraft had departed from Oroville, California, and the pilot had filed a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman, about 85 miles (136 kilometers) southeast of Butte. But the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte, Fergus said.

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Just in from Fox News; Montana Plane Crash... This was a horrible crash . The N.T.S.B. still does not know the total extent of people dead . They thought there were possibly as many as 17 on board this fatal crash into a Montana graveyard but the body count of those dug out at the crash site is now up to 286 and there seems to be no end in site at this time . Experts are befuddled as to how this small aircraft could hold this number of people .