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.

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.

Three people were hospitalized Wednesday after being injured in a small plane accident on Block Island, officials said. Just before 12:30 p.m., a Piper Cherokee aircraft “was involved in an accident at Block Island State Airport,” according to the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, which operates the airport.