Pilot, girlfriend killed in plane crash in N.Y.:

Police say the victims of a small plane crash at a Long Island farm were the pilot and his girlfriend. Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley said Sunday that Robert Mark, 66, and Susan Quagliano, 57, were killed in Saturday morning’s crash at Harbes Family Farm in Mattituck, N.Y., about 75 miles east of New York City. The Oakdale couple’s dog survived. The Federal Aviation Administration said the single-engine Beechcraft A36 crashed about 9:15 a.m. in a plowed field. Firefighters said the plane was “fully engulfed and burning” when they arrived. Mark and Quagliano took off from MacArthur Airport in Islip and were about 15 minutes into a flight to New Bedford, Mass., when Flatley said the plane experienced “some type of mechanical failure.”