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Albany, NY – Police and aviation officials say two small planes collided over a wooded area in upstate New York, killing two people. WAMC's Ian Pickus reports...
The single-engine, four-seat Pipers crashed yesterday afternoon in New Hampton, about 60 miles north of New York City.
State police Captain Joseph Tripodo tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown the planes collided, leaving substantial wreckage at two impact sites a couple of hundred yards apart.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirms two people were killed. State police say it was one pilot in each plane.
Area resident Rebekah Rochelle says she was in her vegetable garden when she happened to look up and saw two planes flying south. She says one plane "clipped" the other.
The cause of the collision is unknown.
Ian Pickus, WAMC News.
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