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A private plane crashed while taking off from Bangor International Airport in Maine, killing seven people and seriously injuring one.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the Bombardier Challenger 600 crashed at around 19:45 local time (00:45 GMT on Monday). The only survivor of the crash was a crew member.
The event is as Dangerous winter storm sweeps across swaths of area Several people died and hundreds of thousands were without power in the United States. The pilot’s visibility at the airport was reportedly poor before the crash.
Bangor remains under a winter storm warning through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected.
The FAA said in a brief report released on Monday that the plane with eight people aboard “crashed on takeoff under unknown circumstances” on Sunday night.
The plane “turned upside down and caught fire,” the statement added.
Bangor International Airport said it was closed following the incident while emergency crews responded. The incident remains under investigation and officials have not yet released the identity of the victim.
Public records show the plane was registered to a law firm in Houston, Texas.
Audio from air traffic control, reported by BBC America partner CBS News and published by LiveATC.net, recorded a discussion between controllers and pilots about poor visibility in the minutes before the crash, but it was unclear which aircraft were heard in the communications.
Shortly after, a controller reported “an airliner was upside down.” Images from the scene showed thick smoke and flames billowing from the runway.
The disruption came amid widespread travel disruption caused by the storm, with more than 11,000 flights canceled and nearly 5,500 delayed across the United States on Sunday, according to tracking firm FlightAware.
Airports in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, North Carolina, New York and New Jersey were affected.
Parts of Maine, including Bangor, are expected to receive 10 to 16 inches (25-40 centimeters) of snow by Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
