An aircraft crashed into a house not far from the North Las Vegas Airport on Friday, killing three people, authorities said.
The pilot and one resident of the house died in the early morning crash, and another person in the house died after being taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas with "severe trauma," Deputy North Las Vegas Fire Chief Kevin Brame said.
Shortly after taking off from the North Las Vegas Airport, the pilot of the home-built aircraft radioed that he was unable to gain altitude and was going down, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman in Hawthorne, California.
The crash caused an intense fire in the single-family home in a neighborhood southeast of a main runway at the airport, but the fire was soon put out by firefighters.
FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were traveling to North Las Vegas to investigate the crash, Gregor said.
Source: Xinhua
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