Plane Clips Tree, Hits House; 2 Hurt
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A small airplane clipped a tree and crashed into the second-floor bedroom of a house while trying to land at an airport near Florence, S.C., critically injuring two of the four people aboard. The Piper Cherokee hit a pine tree in the backyard of the house about three miles from Florence Regional Airport and flipped into the roof of the house. The house belongs to a Methodist minister and his wife, who were not home.
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