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Small plane crash in Tennessee kills mother, son

Investigators work the scene of a plane crash next to the runway of the Collegedale Municipal Airport on Saturday, June 11, 2016, in Collegedale, Tenn. Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP

COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. – Authorities have released the name of a pilot and his mother involved in a small plane crash in Tennessee.

Collegedale police spokeswoman Tonya Sadler says the single-engine plane crashed Saturday as it was coming in to the Collegedale airport. Collegedale is about 20 miles east of Chattanooga.

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Sadler said Sunday in a news release that the plane was registered to the pilot, Todd Silver, out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The release says Silver was travelling with his mother, Suzanne Silver, and his two children.

Sadler says Suzanne Silver and a male child were pronounced dead at the scene. Todd Silver and his daughter were taken to a Chattanooga hospital. Their conditions Sunday weren’t immediately known. The children’s names weren’t released.

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Sadler says federal aviation officials are investigating.

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