Small Plane Crash Kills 1 Near Massachusetts Border
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}HILLSDALE, N.Y. -- Police confirm one person was killed when a small plane crashed and burned in a wooded area near the Massachusetts border.
Columbia County Sheriff's deputies say a hunter called police about 11 a.m. Friday to report a plane down, though crews did not make it to the remote site until the afternoon.
Deputies say the crash started a fire at the site about 100 miles north of New York City. The fire had burned itself out by the time crews arrived.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It was not known when the plane crashed and the victim was not identified.
Investigators are contacting area airports and the probe is continuing. A spokesman for nearby.