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Five dead as plane plunges into Mumbai building site

Two pilots and two aircraft maintenance engineers who were on board and a fifth person on the ground were killed when the Beechcraft King Air C90 aircraft crashed. [Photo: Courtesy]

A small plane crashed into a construction site in a densely populated part of India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, killing five people including one on the ground, officials said.

Images broadcast on Indian news channels showed flames and black smoke billowing from the area, which sits right next to several high-rise residential towers.

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