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Perkasie plane crash: Airplane was heading for rarely used airstrip before crashing in neighborhood

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PERKASIE, Pa. - The owner of a small, rarely used airstrip just south of where a single-engine plane crashed in a Perkasie neighborhood killing both aboard said he was not aware of the pilot's plan to land.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) continued to survey the crash site hours after a Beech 35-C33 plane crashed near the intersection of Victoria Lane and Brittany Lane around 5 p.m.

Thursday. According to a report from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), the small plane with two aboard took off from Doylestown Airport with a destination of Gunden Airstrip.

Gunden is a bumpy plot of land that happens to have an FAA-certified landing strip. The owner of Gunden told FOX 29 that only a handful of planes have used the private strip in his 20 years of ownership.

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