A single-engine airplane crashed near Butte, Montana, on Sunday. About 17 people are feared dead. The plane crashed near a cemetery about 500 feet from an airport runway. The Pilatus PC-12 aircraft left Orville, California, at 11 a.m. PT for Bozeman, Montana, but rerouted to Butte instead.

The plane, manufactured in 2001, was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing in Enterprise, Oregon, according to the FAA. According to The Montana Standard newspaper, the plane may have been carrying several children on their way to a ski vacation. The plane, according to the onlookers near the cemetry, “simply took a nosedive near the cemetry”.

The onlookers commented that they could not do much to help anyway.