GREENVILLE (NEWS CENTER Maine) — Three people have died in a plane crash in Greenville, Maine according to Maine State Police.
Dept. of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland confirmed that the plane crashed on Monday a at 10:55 a.m. as it was landing at the Greenville Municipal Airport in Piscataquis County.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board told NEWS CENTER Maine they will be investigating what caused the crash.
The small plane, an Aerostar, was arriving in Greenville from Pembroke Airport in Ontario, Canada and was heading to Charlottetown Airport at Prince Edward Island, Canada.
There are no details yet available about who was on the plane or what kind of plane crashed.
Greenville PD, Maine State Police, Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office, Greenville FD and the Maine Warden Service are all investigating. Officials said the plane's debris field is relatively small.
The Greenville area has seen at least three plane crashes in the last 15 years:
► Sept. 17, 2011: David Finnegan of Woburn, Mass., died in a Cessna crash shortly after takeoff from Greenville Airport
► Aug. 1, 2010: Telford Allen died in a floatplane crash near the mouth of Moose River; Natalie Holmes-Moody survived the crash
► Sept. 14, 2003: Three people died in a crash near Horseshoe Pond in Greenville when their plane ran out of gas. Vernon Inman, Harlan Abbor and William Aridas of West Paris died. The plane was piloted by Richard Dill, and he survived.