A plane has crashed into a mountainous region of North Carolina with three passengers on board.
A small aircraft crashed near the Sugar Valley Airport in Mocksville, North Carolina, around 12 pm on Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.
Mocksville is a small town of less than 10,000 people and is about an hour north of Charlotte.
The FAA said the aircraft was a Stinson 108 Voyager, which seats four passengers and was produced after World War II until 1950.
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that they were investigating the crash.
A spokesperson for the NTSB told DailyMail.com that an investigator was traveling to the scene.
‘Once on site, the investigator will begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft,’ the NTSB said.
‘The aircraft will then be recovered to a secure facility for further evaluation.’
Information on the three passengers wasn’t released, and it’s unclear what led to the crash.
DailyMail.com reached out to Davie County officials for more information on the passengers’ conditions, but didn’t immediately hear back.
The incident comes just days after a plane crashed into the Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut.
There were two people on board the Piper PA-32, a small aircraft that seats six and is typically used for private flights.
Branford Fire Chief Thomas Mahoney said the pilot called for assistance before the flight went down.
‘The Coast Guard along with Branford Fire Department Marine 5 arrived on location, located the parties in the water [and] brought them safely aboard,’ Mahoney added.
The aircraft crashed into the water six miles away from Tweed Regional Airport, and emergency responders rescued the two people on board.
‘They were wet, cold, and had some cuts on the hands and face,’ a Coast Guard spokesperson said.
In a third recent incident, two passengers and a dog were killed in a Vans RV-10 aircraft in Los Angeles in May. A Vans RV-10 aircraft is a small four-seat single-engine plane.
The aircraft crashed into a home and caused a dramatic fire. The fire department later confirmed that the homeowners evacuated safely.