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BOULDER, Colo. | At least one person is dead after a single-engine plane crashed and caught fire on a road north of Boulder’s airport.
Emergency workers finish dousing a burning small plane after it crashed, leaving one person dead, just outside Boulder Municipal Airport, in Boulder, Colo., on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Boulder County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Jeff Hendry said the crash occurred early Monday morning. He said the plane ended up in a ditch next to pastureland in a rural area north of Boulder. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Paul Aiken) NO SALES Emergency workers finish dousing a burning small plane after it crashed, leaving one person dead, just outside Boulder Municipal Airport, in Boulder, Colo., on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Boulder County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Jeff Hendry said the crash occurred early Monday morning. He said the plane ended up in a ditch next to pastureland in a rural area north of Boulder. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Paul Aiken) NO SALES
The crash occurred just after 7:30 a.m. Monday on Independence Road.
Boulder County sheriff’s Cmdr. Jeff Hendry says the preliminary investigation indicates that the plane hit the road propeller-first. However, he says the circumstances leading up to the crash, the number of people on board and its destination aren’t known yet.
No one on the ground was injured.
Firefighters were able to put out the fire quickly on the road that runs along open fields lined with fences.
