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Two dead after two planes collide over NY woods

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-05-10 09:33
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WAWAYANDA - Police and aviation officials say two small planes collided over a wooded area in upstate New York, killing two people.

The single-engine, four-seat Pipers crashed Monday afternoon (local time) in New Hampton, a hamlet about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of New York City.

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State police Capt. Joseph Tripodo tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown the planes collided, leaving substantial wreckage at two impact sites a couple of hundred yards (meters) apart.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirms two people were killed. State police say it was one pilot in each plane.

Authorities initially said someone also was critically injured. Now they say nobody was.

Area resident Rebekah Rochelle says she was in her vegetable garden when she happened to look up and saw two planes flying south. She says one plane "clipped" the other.

The cause of the collision is unknown.

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