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Bangor International Airport officials are releasing few details about a plane crash Sunday night that they say killed six people.
Federal investigators are en route to the airport.
The private plane attempted to take off at 7:45 p.m. An incident report from the Federal Aviation Administration says the plane “crashed under unknown circumstance on departure, came to rest inverted and caught on fire."
The FAA's incident report says seven passengers on the twin-engine Bombardier aircraft were killed and the pilot was seriously injured.
But in a press release issued Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for Bangor International Airport contradicted the FAA report, saying the flight's manifest showed six people were aboard and all were presumed dead.
Airport director Jose Saavedra told reporters earlier Monday morning that first responders were on scene within a minute. He said the wrecked plane will remain on site until federal investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are expected to arrive later on Monday. But Saavedra declined to provide additional details until those investigators take over.
"We are awaiting for guidance and support from our federal partners before we can make any additional statements to not interfere with their investigations. As the are the leaders of what the next steps look like," he said.
Saavedra said snow and de-icing operations were in progress at the time of the crash.
“The airport remained open and we had planes landing and departing around that time and we had crews on site responding to the, to the ongoing storm we had at that time,” he said.
According to the FAA incident report, the flight was registered to KTKJ Challenger LLC based in Houston, Texas.
Bangor airport is expected to remain closed until Tuesday.
