He said the pilot had requested weather reports for Lebanon, N.H., indicating the plane was headed there.Įrwin Taper, a member of the Monmouth Aviation Flying Club, said the pilot was a member of the club, which owned the plane, a four-seater with a 180-horsepower engine. Pearce said, and the cause of the sudden descent was under investigation. The plane's engine was running when it crashed, Mr. The plane made a low climb, went into a descending turn and crashed a half-mile from the single-runway airport. in clear weather, said Robert Pearce, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. In the fatal crash, the plane, a Piper Arrow, took off from Marlboro Airport at 10:40 A.M. No one was injured in an unrelated plane crash later in the day in Williamstown, N.J.
They did not identify the pilot and three passengers, pending notification of their families. Four people were killed yesterday when their single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Marlboro, N.J., narrowly missing a housing development, the state police said.