A small plane used for skydiving crashed Saturday in the Midwestern U.S. state of Missouri Saturday, killing four persons on board and injuring the rest four, the CNN Television reported.

The plane struck a telephone pole, then bumped into a building before crashing on the ground, shortly after taking off from the Sullivan Regional Airport in eastern Missouri, according to the report.

The plane was carrying skydivers for a Sullivan-based skydiving company and there were eight people aboard, local police said.

The conditions of the four wounded and the cause of the crash were not immediately known.

Agents from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.

Source: Xinhua