Small plane crashes into residential neighborhood in Boone County, prompting evacuation

A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in northern Illinois just east of Rockford on Saturday afternoon, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

A Whittman Tailwind airplane crashed into a neighborhood near Poplar Grove under “unknown circumstances,” NTSB said around 6 p.m. Boone County officials said they got the call about a plane crash around 4 p.m.

One person was on board, and their condition remains unknown as of 9:30 p.m., authorities said…

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