2 Dead After Small Plane Hits Power Line, Crashes Near Rockwall Airport

Two people died in a small-plane crash Thursday afternoon in Rockwall.

Police and firefighters were called just after 1 p.m. to the 1900 block of State Highway 66, near Ralph M. Hall Municipal Airport, where a single-engine Cessna 182 had crashed in a field just north of the road.

Two people were found dead in the wreckage, police said. Their identities have not been released.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane crashed after hitting a power line.

The FAA is continuing to investigate the crash.

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