Separate plane crashes in 2 US states cause casualties

Two people are presumed dead after a plane crashed in Texas late Saturday and another person was confirmed dead in a separate plane crash in Arkansas earlier in the day.

In Texas, two people are presumed dead after a single-engine Cessna plane with two people on board crashed into a river in the Liberty County in the southeastern part of the Lone Star state on Saturday night, according to local TV station ABC13.

Witnesses said the plane appeared to be doing stunts before it stalled and crashed into the Trinity River near a highway.

The two people inside the plane have not been identified, according to authorities.

In Arkansas, one person was killed on Saturday afternoon following a gyrocopter crash near a regional airport in Bryant, a suburb of Arkansas' capital city of Little Rock.

The pilot of the small, single-engine aircraft suffered fatal injuries in the crash, which occurred shortly after 4:30 p.m. local time.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating into the causes of the two crashes.

Source : XINHUA