Pilot And Girlfriend Identified As Victims In New Bedford-Bound Small Plane Crash

SOUTHOLD, N.Y. (CBS/AP) — Police say the victims of a small plane crash at a farm field on New York's Long Island were the pilot and his girlfriend.

Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley said Sunday that 66-year-old Robert Mark and 57-year-old Susan Quagliano were killed in the crash Saturday morning at Harbes Family Farm in Mattituck, about 75 miles east of New York City.

The couple's dog survived.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the single-engine Beechcraft A36 crashed around 9:15 a.m. Firefighters say the plane was "fully engulfed and burning" when they arrived.

Mark and Quagliano, of Oakdale, took off from MacArthur Airport is Islip and were about 15 minutes into a flight to New Bedford, Massachusetts when Flatley says the plane experienced "some type of mechanical failure."

Federal authorities are investigating the crash.

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