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A passenger on a private jet was killed after the airplane encountered severe turbulence over New England.
The Bombardier Challenger 300 airplane was en route from Keene, New Hampshire, to Leesburg, Virginia, on Friday when the incident happened. The aircraft was diverted to the Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks in Connecticut and successfully landed there.
Three passengers and two crew were on the plane.
One of the passengers suffered fatal injuries, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a statement on Saturday.
The private jet was at an altitude of approximately 26,000 feet before it began to descend and was diverted to the Connecticut airport, online flight records show.
NTSB investigators were interviewing the two crew members and surviving passengers as part of a probe into the deadly encounter with turbulence, Sarah Sulick, an NTSB spokesperson said.
