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A small plane crashed into the terrace of a residential building in western Germany on Saturday and two people were killed, news agency AP reported citing. The crash happened in Korschenbroich, near the city of Monchengladbach and not far from the Dutch border. The plane hit the terrace of the building and a fire broke out.

Police said two people died and one of them was probably the plane's pilot, German news agency dpa reported. It wasn't immediately clear whether the other person had been on the plane or on the ground. Officials had no immediate information on the cause of the crash.

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This was not the first time when such an accident was reported in Germany. A similar incident was reported in 2020 when a small aircraft crashed into a residential building in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, killing three people and injuring a child. The roof of the apartment building in the town of Wesel caught fire after the microlight plane crashed into it.
Witnesses told local media that the aircraft had collided with a hot-air balloon shortly before the crash.

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Plane crashes into crowd in Germany

Several people died when a Cessna plane crashed into a crowd in the western German state of Hesse in October 2018. Several more people were injured in the incident that happened in the Rhoen region near the town of Fulda. Local media reported that the pilot lost control of the aircraft when trying to land at Wasserkuppe.

It appeared that something went wrong during the procedure so the pilot tried to take off again but the Cessna did not pick up, broke through a barrier and rolled into a waiting crowd, Osthessen News reported.

(With inputs from agencies)

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