Plane Crashes Near South Bend, Five Die

A small plane has crashed near South Bend, killing all five people aboard. Aviation officials say it was a twin-engine Cessna that took off from South Bend Regional Airport at about eight o’clock last night. Air traffic controllers had no indication that anything was wrong, until the plane dropped off their radar screen when it was about 10 miles southwest of South Bend. Apparently, nobody witnessed the crash and it took about an hour for searchers to find the wreckage in rural LaPorte County. Officials say there was not much left of the plane, which had been on its way to Iowa.