FARMINGTON, Conn. — A small jet carrying four people en route to North Carolina crashed Thursday morning in Farmington shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, authorities said.
All four people onboard the jet at the time of the crash, identified as two pilots and two passengers, died, Farmington police Lt. Tim McKenzie said.
The jet, a Cessna Citation 560X, was headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
A short while earlier, the jet apparently experienced a mechanical failure during takeoff from the nearby Robertson Airport in Plainville, about a mile away from the scene of the crash, McKenzie said. The jet crashed into the ground before hitting a building at 111 Hyde Rd, the U.S. head office for Trumpf Inc., an industrial machine manufacturing company, according to police.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.