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MGN Online BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) – A small plane with five people on board has crashed near the city of Bloomington in central Illinois. The Chicago Tribune quotes the father-in-law of one of those on board as saying all five were killed while returning from the NCAA basketball championship in Indianapolis. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 414 took off from Indianapolis and crashed just short of the Bloomington airport after midnight Tuesday. The Tribune quotes Scott Barrows as saying his daughter’s husband, Scott Bittner, was on board with three other men and the pilot. The local fire department referred calls from The Associated Press to the coroner’s office, which didn’t immediately return messages for comment. A family friend who answered a phone listing for Scott Bittner refused the comment beyond asking for privacy.