Sheriff confirms 7 dead after small plane crash in Illinois

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A county sheriff is confirming that seven people have died in a small plane crash in central Illinois while returning home from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis.

McLean County Sheriff Jon Sandage says the county coroner pronounced all seven occupants dead. Their identities were being withheld pending notification of family.

The Cessna 414 took off from Indianapolis and crashed just short of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in the city of Bloomington after midnight on Tuesday.

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