No fewer than one person died after a small plane carrying six people crashed on Saturday afternoon about 50 miles (80 km) south of New York state capital Albany.
The Columbia County Sheriff's office said the Mitsubishi MU-2B went down in a muddy field at 12:15 p.m. (1615 GMT) in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts state line and the plane was bound for the Columbia County Airport, near Hudson, New York.
At the time of filing this report, it was not immediately clear if there were other injuries or fatalities.
Both the Federal Aviation Agency and the local sheriff's office said that National Transportation Safety Board officials would provide more information on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Columbia's Undersheriff, Jacqueline Salvatore, at a press conference, told reporters that snow and wet ground were hampering response efforts.
“It’s in the middle of a field and it’s pretty muddy, so accessibility is difficult,”; she said.
The cause of the plane crash could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
