JOLIET, Ill., July 21 (UPI) — A pilot was killed Thursday when he crashed his small plane into a house in Plainfield, Ill., about 30 miles from Chicago.
No one on the ground was injured and investigators say it appears the only victim is the pilot. The house the plane crashed into was empty at the time.
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“They did a search of it, and nobody was inside,” Joliet Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeff Carey said.
News reports said a woman and her dog were in the house before the plane crashed but managed to escape unharmed.
“It sounds like it broke up in a few different pieces,” Carey said. “It sounds like it might have lost a piece and then came down.”
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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