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[color:"green"] (Sheffield, Mass.-AP, Mar. 3, 2003 Updated 3:15 PM ) _ State police say three members of a New Hampshire family were killed in the crash of their small plane in western Massachusetts, but four others survived.

A family of seven from New Hampshire had been on board the single-engine Piper Cherokee Six, which had disappeared after the pilot made a distress call Sunday evening.

"There are survivors," said Massachusetts State Police Lt. Ron Sieberg. They were being taken by helicopters to Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y., he said.

The wreckage was spotted in the Beartown State Forest, a mountainous area near the Connecticut and New York state lines. The site is about five miles east of the Great Barrington airport, where the plane was reportedly headed, officials said.

The Keene, N.H., family, including five children, had been flying home after a visit in Pennsylvania, State Police Lt. Paul Maloney said. He declined to reveal their names.

Temperatures in the mountains were in the single digits early Monday with gusty 15 to 30 mph wind.





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