US federal investigators are searching for possible causes of a crash of a small plane that went down in the northern US state of Montana killing all 14 people on board, many of them children.
It is believed the children were going on a skiing holiday.
Preliminary reports indicated all on board the plane were killed when it plunged into the Holy Cross Cemetery.
The plane, a single engine turboprop, was heading from Oroville, California, just north of San Francisco on a 1,500km journey to Bozeman, Montana.
Earlier reports indicated 17 people had been killed when the plane plunged into a cemetery, but the death toll was later revised to 14, officials said.
The crash occurred at around 8.30pm Irish time last night just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, about 130m west of Bozeman.
A US Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the plane was apparently owned by Eagle Cap Leasing from Enterprise, Oregon.
