Police Officers Die In Airplane Crash

Crossing, New Brunswick A twin-engine chartered plane bound for Maine crashed in a field and exploded Sunday, killing all eight people aboard.

The victims all were Americans, many of them Massachusetts police officers returning from an elk-hunting trip, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector Jim Payne. Their names were not released.

The Piper Navajo was on its way from Anticosti Island in Canada to Bangor, Maine, when it radioed that it was having mechanical problems, police said.