One person has died and two others sustained injuries after a small plane crashed at Block Island State Airport Wednesday afternoon. According to the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, a Piper Cherokee Archer aircraft was “involved in an accident” at 12:29 p.

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.

The single-engine aircraft was "involved in an accident" around 12:30 p.m., according to the Rhode Island Airport Corporation.