AT least five people have been killed in a horror plane crash in Tennessee.
Flames and thick smoke were seen coming from the wreckage after the aircraft went down in Nashville on Monday.
All the people on board the small plane were killed, officials said.
The aircraft was trying to make an emergency landing at John C. Tune Airport but landed near Interstate 40.
The pilot told air traffic control crews that the plane wouldn't make the airport due to the engine shutting down.
"I'm going to be landing - I don't know where," the pilot said before the crash.
"I'm too far away. I'm not going to make it," he said.
This was the last that was heard from the plot before the plane dropped off the radar as it lost altitude.
Horror pictures show the plane on fire as it hit the ground.
“That impact was catastrophic and did not leave any survivors,” Kendra Loney, of the Nashville Fire Department, said.
Of the five passengers, three of them were children, said National Transportation Safety Board investigator Aaron McCarter at a press conference.
McCarter added that all five were Canadian citizens and that the agency is working with the government to confirm their identities.
The plane landed near a Costco warehouse and was just 3 miles away from the airport.
Officials said they're relieved the plane didn't hit any buildings as it hurtled to the ground.
Fire crews revealed that there were no injuries on the ground.
Officials from the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.
Crews have been pictured at the scene surveying the mangled wreckage.
Lanes on Interstate 40 were closed following the crash.
Drivers have been warned of delays on Tuesday morning.
