Police said at least two people died when a small airplane crashed into a mountain in southwest Virginia.
The FAA said the aircraft was headed from Spruce Creek Airport, near Port Orange, to Ohio's Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport.
Lt. Ed Murphy with Virginia State Police said Tuesday that there were conflicting reports on whether there were two or three people on the plane. Nobody survived.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Beechcraft BE-55 was flying about 7 miles northeast of Tazewell County Airport in Richlands, Virginia, when air traffic controllers lost contact with it Monday.
Murphy said it appears the pilot was trying to avoid an isolated storm when the plane crashed.
It took rescuers 2 1/2 hours to reach the heavily wooded crash site on Flat Top Mountain by foot Tuesday.