KEENE, NH (MyKeeneNow) – Two people have reportedly died after a plane crashed into a barn attached to an apartment building in Keene Friday evening.

In a press conference Saturday morning Keene Mayor George Hansel said the plane crashed shortly after in departed the Keene airport around 6:45 Friday night and sparked a fire in the building.

The owner of the building was on scene Friday and told WKBK that all eight residents were accounted for and uninjured. They were all displaced by the fire and are receiving assistance from the Red Cross.

During the press conference, Hansel said the two people on board the plane, owned by Monadnock Aviation, died in the crash. Further information regarding their identities has not been released.

The National Transportation Safety board will be taking the lead in the investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, and the Keene Police and fire departments were on scene throughout the weekend. The NTSB said the investigation will likely take months, and more information isn’t expected to be released until next year.

During a media briefing Sunday the NTSB also identified the two people killed as men, who were both pilot rated. Their names have not been released.

Brown said he began receiving panicked phone calls from his tenants following the crash and during the ensuing blaze.

“One of my tenants called me in hysteria,” he told WKBK on scene. “I immediately left home and got down here as fast as I could.”

He also noted that the building was erected around 1830 and was one of the original farmhouses on Main Street in Keene.

Scott Gauthier is a resident in one of those apartments in the back of the building and was home when the crash occurred.

“I heard a sound like something was falling and then the whole building shook,” Gauthier said. “My mom went and checked outside the building and started screaming ‘get out of the house, get out of the house’ …And I looked up and the whole roof of the barn was on fire within minutes.”

Those who heard the crash initially reported it as sounding like an explosion, but Gauthier said it sounded more like a loud bang.

This page was updated to reflect information released from the NTSB on Sunday.