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The plane went down in a heavily wooded area of Lyon County,
about 115 miles northwest of Nashville, Kentucky State Police
said.
Authorities received a 911 call from a resident in the area who
said a 7-year-old girl "had walked to his home reporting that
she had been involved in a plane crash," state police said in a
statement posted on Facebook.
"The juvenile was in distress and was transported to a local
hospital for non-life threatening injuries," the statement said.
Rescue crews fanned out to look for the plane and discovered its
wreckage in a wooded area, police said. Four people onboard were
killed, among them the pilot, they said.
Police said the Memphis Center of the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) confirmed a distress call from a private
aircraft in the vicinity of reported crash.
The cause of the crash was under investigation. The identities
of the victims were not yet known.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Michael Perry)
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