Mechanical failure combined with poor weather may explain why a plane crashed early Monday in the northern Minnesota city of Clearbrook, Minn., authorities said. First responders found the pilot and lone occupant of the single-engine Cessna 172 outside the plane when they arrived on the scene about 1:30 a.

Two people were killed Tuesday when a small plane crashed in a wooded area in northern Indiana, authorities said. The aircraft crashed around 2:20 p.m. in a rural area outside Bristol, roughly 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Fort Wayne,

Two people died in a plane crash near the Indiana-Michigan border on Tuesday afternoon. At about 2:20 p.m., dispatch advised that an airplane crashed in the 52000 block of CR 21 in Bristol, Indiana. Responding officers located a small fixed-wing aircraft in a wooded area.