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IDs Released For Two Killed, Four Injured In Plane Crash Into House Near Area Airport
The identities of the two people killed and four injured when a small plane crashed into a two-story home near a public-access airport in the area have been released.
The crash happened in Dutchess County just after 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Aug. 17 on South Smith Road in Union Vale, just south of Sky Acres Airport and east of the Taconic State Parkway.
The two who died were the pilot of the Cessna 303, identified as Francisco Knipping-Diaz, 61, of Woodmere in Nassau County, and a man who was in the house at the time, Gerard Bocker, 61, who has been tentativel…