Multiple people have been killed following the crash of a single-engine plane in a wooded area of North Carolina, authorities said. The number of people dead and the names of the victims have not been released.

Five people, including a child, died in a fiery Saturday evening plane crash at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., the National Park Service reported Sunday afternoon.

Four passengers were onboard the plane when it crashed and caught fire, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

A single-engine plane was trying to land when it crashed into a wooded area near the memorial in North Carolina on Saturday, the National Park Service said.

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board spent Sunday afternoon making their initial observations of the scene at Wright Brothers National Memorial where a single-engine plane crashed,

A single-engine plane crashed on Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial's First Flight Airport in North Carolina, killing two people. According to a news release from the park service,

The single-engine plane that crashed Saturday evening at the Wright Brothers National Memorial First Flight Airport in Kill Devil Hills, killing all five of its occupants, hit a tree on its second landing approach before the crash,

At the beginning, I thought he was really high, and all of a sudden, he just went down a little too quick,” said an eyewitness who saw the plane lose altitude.