Small plane crashes into German home, 1 dead, 1 missing

At least one person died and a second one appeared to be missing after a small plane crashed into a home in northern Germany on Saturday, police said.

For reasons that are still being investigated, the small plane lost altitude and crashed into the roof of a single-family home in a residential neighbourhood in Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony, police in the nearby city of Oldenburg said.

According to police, the plane was carrying two people. One person was killed in the crash and rescue personnel were searching for the missing individual, German news agency dpa reported.