Small Plane Crashes Into Parking Lot

(CBS/ AP)  Three people are dead after a small plane crashed in a remote corner of a grocery store parking lot.

Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the three were on board the single engine plane when it went down in the parking lot at Hannaford's grocery store at about 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday.

He had no further details.

Store manager Arthur Dechellis said he heard an explosion, and when he looked outside a two-seat plane was on fire. He said the plane crashed in an area of the parking lot where people rarely park and no cars were hit.

Dechellis said the store remained open and customers were going in and out.


Ashmita Kohli, an employee of a Quizno's in the plaza, told CBS station WBZ she saw at least one body at the scene.

"You could hear a plane then a big boom," she said. "It looks like a movie set right now."

Khol said the plane was engulfed in flames.

Mansfield Airport is located nearby. Officials there had no comment.

The plaza is home to Hannford's, Quizno's, as well as Target and T.J. Maxx department stores.

[be_real]

one engine - one chance to make it.

[kleigh813]

The most tragic thing about this is that the victims were on an Angel Flight, a mother and a daughter in route to Dana Farber for cancer treatment for the daughter. May they be at peace

[kleigh813]

The most tragic thing about this is that the victims were on an Angel Flight, a mother and a daughter in route to Dana Farber for cancer treatment for the daughter. May they be at peace

[bilyara]

Three people in a "two-seat" plane? I don''t think so. Did the store manager go count the seats? If it REALLY only had two seats, and three people were in the airplane, that''s really stupid (to say nothing of very difficult), and it''d be most likely why the plane went down.

[sentry88]

FLYING COFFINS

[slim1h2o]

"You could hear a plane then a big boom," she said. "It looks like a movie set right now.

????,,,if I were there, I''m sure that it would pretty much look like a plane wreck to me.

Or maybe look like a bomb went off,,,but a movie set?

[Gary Kempf]

Dechellis said the store remained open and customers were going in and out.

Well it is sad that customers didn''t seem bothered by the crash. Then again it is not like closing the shopping center would change what happened.