Plane crash at Marana airport kills at least one in Arizona: Police

• A plane crash in Pima County, Arizona, killed two people on Wednesday, according to the Marana Police Department. The National Transportation Safety Board called it in a social media post “mid-air collision” involving two small planes at the Marana Regional Airport, but details are still limited.
• Police said they were preparing to address the media in a dirt parking lot outside the airport.
• Marana law enforcement confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are responding to the incident.

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A plane crash in Pima County, Arizona, killed two people on Wednesday, Feb. 19, according to the Marana Police Department. The crash reportedly involved a small plane at the Marana Regional Airport, but details are limited.

Police said they were preparing to address the media in a dirt parking lot outside of the airport.

Marana law enforcement confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are responding to the incident.

What do details have been released?

The NTSB called the incident “a mid-air collision” in a social media post and said it involved to two small planes.

Details on the cause of the crash are still unknown as of the publishing of this report.

Why is it important?

It’s the second deadly plane crash at an Arizona airport this month after another incident which killed the pilot of a private jet owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neill in Scottsdale.

The airport collision also follows deadly plane crashes in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and western Alaska.

Earlier this week, everyone on board a commercial flight that crashed in Toronto survived after the plane burst into flames and flipped over while landing on the runway.

Investigations are ongoing for all these recent air disasters.