Two people were killed Thursday in a light plane crash in northern Israel. Paramedics who arrived on the scene saw that the plane, a Cessna, had been entirely consumed by flames.

Paramedics pronounced the two people on board dead immediately upon their arrival.

The Airports Authority said the plane was a Cessna 172 and that it had taken off from Herzliya Thursday morning. There had apparently been an engine malfunction, which the pilot reported, forcing him to try to land at the

Mahanayim airport. However, the plane crashed three kilometers short of its mark.

The most recent light plane crash was in August. Two people were killed when their plane crashed into a field near Kibbutz Schiller.

(Source: Ynet)