Planes Crashes, Explodes on Busy NJ Highway, Five People Killed

    A busy highway outside New York City was shut down Tuesday morning after a plane crashed into it, killing five people.

    FOX News Radio’s Chris Hoenig reports from New York City:

    The single-engine Socata TBM-700 was heading to Georgia when it spiraled out of control, crashing across Interstate 287.

    (Gretz) “A pick-up truck just missed the airplane.  But luckily, with 287 being a very heavily traveled highway, there were no ground injuries.”

    But two investment bankers: 36-year-old Rakesh Chawla and 45-year-old Jeffrey Buckalew, as well as Buckalew’s wife, two children and family dog were all killed.  Eyewitnesses tell the NTSB’s Bob Gretz that the plane broke apart before impact.

    (Gretz) “The tail section ended up in the residence in the Morristown area.”

    Morristown is about 25 miles west of Manhattan.

    In New York, Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.

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