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New Jersey State police troopers stand in a soybean field near the wreckage of a small plane that was involved in a midair collision with another small plane in Burlington Township, N.J. Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000. The Federal Aviation Administration says at leat three people died in the crash. (AP Photo)

August 11, 2000 

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) - Two small planes collided over a neighborhood in southeast New Jersey, killing at least 11 people and sending part of the wreckage plunging onto a house, setting it on fire.

No injuries were reported on the ground.

At least eight of those killed were aboard a Piper Navajo that took off from Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station, said Arlene Salac, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. A ninth body was discovered among the plane's wreckage Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators at the crash site found a flight manifest from the shuttle that listed nine people on board, said State Police Maj. Barry Roberson.

Lakehurst spokesman Lawrence Lyford said he did not know the identities of any of the occupants.

Two people - a flight instructor and a student - died on the second plane, a Piper Seminole from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, Salac said. The instructor was identified as Craig Robinson, 28, of Hamilton Township, New Jersey. The student was a licensed pilot working on his commercial license, Hortman Aviation owner Herb Hortman said.

A firefighter arrives on the scene of a house fire after two small planes collided over a neighborhood in southeast New Jersey, killing at least 11 people and sending part of the wreckage plunging onto the house, setting it on fire Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000 in Burlington, Twp, N.J. No injuries were reported on the ground. (AP Photo)

The weather at the time was cloudy but visibility was 10 miles (16 kilometers), said meteorologist Mark DeLisi of the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.

Resident Antoinette Carnivale said she saw the planes collide.

"I saw smoke and flames and pieces coming down," she said.

Mary Miles, who lives in the same development as the house that was hit, heard the crash.

"I thought it was thunder, and then I turned on the television and saw it was actually a plane crash," she said.

The couple who lived in the house that was struck escaped unharmed. Fire extensively damaged their two-story, brick-front home, in a suburban development about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Trenton.

An airplane tail section landed in a field several hundred yards form homes and what appeared to be a piece of a wing fell on the roof of a home.

The Piper Navajo was registered to Tigress Aviation, Inc. of California, Maryland, according to FAA spokesman John Clabes. FAA records show no accidents or incidents involving that plane, Clabes said.