FOUR people have been killed after a plane struck power lines and crashed into a road.
No survivors were found after the tragic fireball crash on Saturday morning in Trilla, Illinois.
Horror video showed the plane’s flaming wreckage plastered across a road and field as cops rushed to the scene.
Local police said the single-engine plane crashed just 200 miles south of Chicago at around 10.15am today.
The aircraft had smashed into a set of power lines before the fatal smash, reports CBS News.
The burning wreckage slowly petered out after all four people on board died.
Cops said all four victims – two men and two women – killed in the crash were from Wisconsin but didn’t disclose their identities.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the fatal crash.
They said that four people were on board a Cessna 180 which crashed in a field southeast of Coles County Memorial Airport.
It is still unclear where the plane departed from and where it was going.
Local authorities said that the Federal Aviation Administration was on the scene and investigating.
The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to arrive on Sunday to launch a probe.
Illinois State Police told People: “ISP Troop 7 was notified of a small single-engine plane crash at the above location.
“All four occupants were from Menomonie, Wisconsin, and were pronounced deceased on scene.”
They added: “The aircraft remains in the roadway and the roadway will be shut down until later today.
“This in an active and ongoing investigation.”
Crash witness Kynnedi Goldstein told CBS News Chicago: “I was getting ready to turn a show on and all of a sudden I hear this noise.
“It’s like the whole ‘boom,’ and then our power went out for a second, and then our generator kicked on.
“So then I go out to our sunroom, and I look, and there’s a huge pile of smoke.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said the news was “terrible” and thanked the first responders who rushed to the scene in a statement on X.
The deadly crash is the latest in a spate of horror plane accidents.
On Friday, three people were killed after a plane crash landed in a river in Nebraska.
Days earlier, an eight-year-old girl was among six people who died in a helicopter crash over the Hudson River.
Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, their three children, and a pilot all perished in the disaster.
Chilling footage of a separate crash site showed the remains of a private plane which killed a family of top doctors.
The parents, two children, and the children’s partners all died when their plane plunged on their way to the Catskills for a birthday and Passover celebration last Saturday.
Investigators shared a harrowing video of the aircraft wreckage ripped apart in a muddy field in Copake, New York, just 10 miles from the airport it was headed toward.
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