The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a small plane crash that happened near Akron’s Portage Lakes area Thursday afternoon, killing two people and severely damaging a home.

A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, before dawn Thursday, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

A close encounter occurred as a Southwest flight from Phoenix was about to land at the airport, the pilot said.

In a statement shared on Facebook, the Akron Fire Department said a small aircraft crashed into a home on May 14, southwest of Akron Fulton Airport.

The small plane that crashed while carrying four pickleball players to a tournament near Austin last month had problems with freezing instruments before it broke apart midair, according to a preliminary federal investigation report released Friday.

Fire crews are on scene where a small plane landed in a field in Sun Lakes near SR87 and Hunt Highway. The plane landed on Gila River Indian Community land. The incident occurred sometime before 9 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to investigate why a plane smashed into the side of an Akron home on Thursday afternoon, May 14, killing two people on board.

Two people were killed after a plane crashed into a residence in Akron, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon, local and federal authorities said

A small single-engine plane was shot with a gun Friday evening while picking up water to battle a wildfire in northern Minnesota, according to St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay. No one was injured in the incident,