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| Plane Crash: Home in New Jersey Hit by Cessna | |
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| A small plane crashed on Tuesday morning into a house in a suburban New Jersey town and burst into flames, federal officials said. | |
| The Cessna 414 crashed into the home in Colonia around 11 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Two homes were on fire, and all available fire units were at the scene of the crash, according to the Colonia Fire Department. | |
| A local official said that no one on the ground was injured, and that only a pilot had been aboard the plane. | |
| Mayor John McCormac of Woodbridge Township, which includes Colonia, said near the scene of the crash, on Berkley Avenue, that the plane came from Virginia and had been heading to Linden, N.J. | |
| Officials at Linden Airport, a small municipal airport about five miles from Colonia, said they had no additional information about the plane or the crash. | |
| The plane went down in a quiet residential neighborhood, not far from an elementary school. | |
| The F.A.A. said investigators were headed to the scene of the crash. |