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A small plane with seven people aboard crashed in Kentucky on Monday, one day after a Comair flight went down in the state, killing 49 of 50 people aboard, media reports said.
Monday's crash was about 160 km from Sunday's disaster in Lexington, and it was not known immediately if there were any survivors.
The twin-engine Cessna 401, which took off from Kickapoo Downtown airport near Wichita Falls, Texas, and whose destination was unknown, was reportedly carrying a family of seven.
The plane was completely burned and debris was scattered over quite an area, the reports said.
The accidents came just one day after the deadliest aircraft crash in the United States in four years, when a Comair flight carrying 50 people crashed in Lexington, Kentucky.
Comair Flight 5191 took the wrong runway for takeoff at the Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, in the predawn darkness on Sunday, and the jet plane crashed about less than 2 km off the airport.
Investigators were looking into whether changes made to a taxiway during a repaving project a week ago confused the pilot and caused him to turn onto the wrong runway, and whether runway lights, markings and others factors could have misled the pilots.
(Xinhua News Agency August 30, 2006)
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