5 killed in plane crash on major US highway

Two New York City investment bankers are among the five dead in a small plane crash on one of the area's busiest highways.

Greenhill & Co. says two managing directors were aboard the plane that crashed on Interstate 287 in Morris Township, New Jersey. They were 45-year-old Jeffrey Buckalew and 36-year-old Rakesh Chawla.

Buckalew is the registered owner of the single-engine plane and has a pilot's license. Greenhill says his wife and their two children also were aboard.

The FAA says the plane departed Teterboro Airport for DeKalb Peachtree Airport near Atlanta Tuesday when there was a garbled transmission and it disappeared from the radar.

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