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Crash of small plane in Texas kills five

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Five people, including a 13-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, were killed Monday night when a small plane headed from Georgia to Waco, Texas, crashed near its destination.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Piper Saratoga took off from an airfield south of the city, stopped in Jackson, Miss., then ran into bad weather in Texas.

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Three adults -- two men and a woman -- were also killed in the crash. Four of the dead were from the Atlanta area. The pilot was from Texas, the newspaper reported.

The names of the dead were withheld pending notification of their families.

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