Texas: Plane Crash Kills All Aboard

By Staff, Agencies

A small twin-engine passenger plane crashed in Texas Sunday, killing all ten people aboard, officials said.

"The Dallas County Medical Examiner has confirmed 10 fatalities and no survivors," a spokeswoman for the town of Addison told AFP.

The plane was heading for St. Petersburg, Florida and was carrying two flight crew along with eight passengers, Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB] Bruce Landsberg said.

It remains unclear what caused the crash but officials are investigating, he said.

"There are any number of possibilities that could occur," Landsberg told a press conference.

Video broadcast by US media showed a massive column of black smoke pouring out of a building at the airport in Addison, as firefighters directed streams of water toward the blaze.

The NTSB investigator in charge of the accident, Jennifer Rodi, said the plane, which had changed ownership recently, hit a private hanger at the airport.

CBS News quoted sources as saying the aircraft lost an engine on takeoff and veered into the hanger.