One man is dead after a single-engine plane owned by an Albany County-based flying club crashed not far from the runway at an airport on Block Island in Rhode Island.

A New York county legislator has been identified as the person who died after a plane crash at Block Island State Airport Wednesday afternoon. Montgomery County Sheriff Jeffery Smith confirmed to Rhode Island Current Thursday afternoon that that the victim was Councilor Dan Wilson,

NEW SHOREHAM – Three people have been transported to the Block Island Medical Center following an accident involving a plane on Wednesday, July 30.