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New details have emerged after all six people on board, including several family members, died after a small plane crashed in New York's Upper Hudson Valley.
The family has since identified the six people on board, click here to read our full report.
The incident happened around 12:05 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in Columbia County in a field in the hamlet of Craryville near the Massachusetts border, according to an announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Craryville is located in the town of Copake.
The aircraft, a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40, had departed from Westchester County Airport in White Plains and was headed to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a news conference early Sunday evening, April 13, in Albany. The crash happened about 10 miles from the Columbia County Airport.
NTSB spokesman J. Todd Inman said the agency has obtained a video of the final seconds of the crash, which he noted happened "at a high rate of descent into the ground."
Inman said NTSB investigators will be at the crash scene "for at least a week," and a preliminary report is expected within 30 days.
The NTSB had announced there were no survivors earlier Sunday afternoon, and that the six are made up of five passengers and the pilot.
The pilot has had an active license "for a number of years," the NTSB said.
The NTSB said identities of the victims would not be released by the agency but by Columbia County officials or family members.
The family was en route to a holiday celebration in the Capital Region, the NTSB said.
View a video of the NTSB press conference here.
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