Miscellaneous

A small plane has crashed into a Butte, Montana, cemetery of all places just a little while ago.

Seventeen people are reported dead.

Details:

The plane may have been carrying several young children who may have been heading for a ski vacation.

Butte-Silver Bow County Coroner Lee Labreche has been called out. It is unknown if anyone on the ground was injured.

The plane was en route to Butte from Oroville, Calif., officials said. It is a Pilatus PC12 leased from Eagle Leasing of California.

An eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into nose dive.