Around 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Marshall County Sheriff's officials said that a plane crash near the Guntersville airport killed two people and injured two others.
Officials on the scene said a family was in the plane. A man and a woman were killed in the wreck. A girl between the ages of four and six was taken to Huntsville Hospital by a medical helicopter, and a boy between the ages of six and eight old was also taken to a hospital by helicopter.
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Guntersville Police Chief Jim Peterson said the plane was a Piper low wing general aviation aircraft. It is unclear whether it was arriving or departing. It crashed in a yard on Buck Island in Marshall County.
The plane was reportedly in four pieces with a wing completely broken off, the fuselage burned, and the tail section broken off.
Several emergency crews responded to the scene. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Admission are headed to the scene.
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