This past Monday morning, a small plane crashed straight onto Interstate 195, a major Massachusetts highway.

The plan hit right around morning rush hour. The highway was closed in both directions near the crash site in Dartmouth, a town
about 50 miles south of Boston, according to the state Department of Transportation. The impact killed both passengers on the plane. Thankfully, no motorists on the interstate were seriously injured, according to a statement posted
on Facebook by New Bedford’s mayor, Jon Mitchell.

But according to state police, there was a woman whose car was struck by the incident. She was immediately rushed to the hospital, but miraculously has no life-threatening injuries. The mayor, Mitchell, extended his condolences to the loved ones of those lost in the crash, and said he was “grateful that the crash miraculously did not result in serious injuries to motorists.”

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III said, “The people who died were pronounced dead at the scene”. Quinn identified them a 68-year-old Thomas Perkins and his 66-year-old wife Agatha Perkins from Middletown, Rhode Island. According to the Massachusetts State Police, they may have been attempting to land at New Bedford airport, but officials said the pilot didn’t appear to have provided the airport with a flight plan. Police were able to discover from the National Transportation Safety Board that a Socata TBM-700 plane had departed from the New Bedford airport, and that the agency was investigating the crash. Due to the government shutdown, an email was sent stating that all media inquiries from the Federal Aviation Administration could not be addressed about the investigation. (AP News)