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Authorities: Pilot Most Likely Dead After Plane Crash

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Authorities say they're trying to contain a 86 gallon fuel spill after a plane crash at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport Thursday.

Authorities tell a Channel 2 photographer that the pilot most likely died from the 8:15am, but they're still not sure.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor tells the Associated Press the pilot was the only person aboard when the Piper Comanche crashed into a hangar about 8:15 a.m. Thursday.

Gregor says the plane is registered to a northern California man.

Paul Spencer of the Truckee Fire Protection District says there was no fire and there were no planes in the hangar at the time the single-engine aircraft went down.

Investigators are looking into the cause of the crash.

The airport is located in Truckee, about 10 miles northwest of Lake Tahoe. (AP)

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