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

Marietta resident Matthew Arthur Fassnacht,was one of the five people on board the Cirrus SR-22 when it crashed. There were no survivors.

A decorated soldier based at Fort Liberty died in a fiery plane crash over the weekend in North Carolina, the Army confirmed Tuesday.

On Saturday, at around 5:55 p.m. local time, a Cirrus SR22 plane crashed near the Wright Brothers National Memorial's First Flight Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board told USA TODAY in an email. The airport is located in Kill Devil Hills on the North Carolina coast, around 90 miles south of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Federal investigators are examining evidence to determine what led to a plane crash last weekend on North Carolina’s Outer Banks that killed five people, including a 6-year-old.

Multiple people have been reported dead following the crash of a single-engine plane at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport in Manteo, NC, on Saturday afternoon. According to the National Park Service and The New York Times,

Four adults and one child died after their single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Kill Devil Hills near the First Flight Airport.

All five passengers aboard the single-engine airplane died, a spokesperson for the National Park Service confirmed

Wright Brothers National Memorial from the air, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devils, NC, Feb. 6, 2022. — Joe Sohm/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C.) — Multiple people were killed