A small plane crashed Wednesday afternoon at DuPage Airport in the city of West Chicago. The FAA and DuPage Airport officials said a twin-engine Piper PA-30 plane crashed shortly after taking off from runway 20 at DuPage Airport around 1:50 p.m. Two people on board the plane were pronounced dead at the scene.

A Piper PA-30 crashed after departing from the airport Wednesday afternoon. Two people were aboard, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A small plane has crashed in central Mexico while attempting an emergency landing, killing at least seven people.

A Cessna Citation crashed shortly before reaching the airport in the city of Toluca, killing at least 7 people, local Red Cross and authorities said.

The Philadelphia community celebrated the return home of 10-year-old Ramesses Vazquez-Viana, who was badly burned in the Northeast Philly plane crash.

The plane itself suffered significant front-end damage after skidding or crashing nose-first onto the snow-covered grass beside the runway.

The Senate moved quickly Wednesday afternoon to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington,

A small twin-engine plane crashed near apartments by Nashua Airport in New Hampshire, injuring the lone pilot and damaging a building; no others were hurt.