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At about 2 pm on Friday, June 11, a small plane, apparently taking off from Springerville airport crashed into the Round Valley High School's main building. Shortly after the crash, there was an explosion that was rattled windows all over town. It is suspected the plane's fuel tank exploded. The first person on the scene was James Nelson Jr., Eagar councilman. "I was driving down Main Street and saw a small plane that was too low and wobbling. It went down near the High School so I pulled in and saw it had crashed into the roof. There were pieces...

Authorities sifting through the wreckage Saturday of a small plane that crashed into a high school in eastern Arizona found four bodies inside the aircraft. Officials had previously thought only two people were aboard the single-engine Piper that crashed Friday into a building at Round Valley High School in Eagar. Apache County sheriff's Sgt. Richard Guinn says officials were working to identify the bodies. Guinn says no one was in the building during the crash. Witnesses reported the craft circled the area before it nose-dived into a building and exploded. Calls to Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board...

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