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A small plane crashed Sunday at the Provincetown Municipal
Airport on Cape Cod, catching fire and killing the pilot, who
was the only person on board, officials said.
Firefighters and other emergency responders extinguished the
fire at the crash site near the seaside community at the very
tip of the Cape Cod, city officials said in a news release.
The statement said the pilot was pronounced dead at the crash
site.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement
that the aircraf was a Cessna 172N and that it will investigate
the crash. It gave no preliminary indication of a possible
cause.
The airport was closed following the crash.
Provincetown is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast
of Boston at the end of Cape Cod, the hooked peninsula jutting
into the Atlantic Ocean in southeast Massachusetts.
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