One dead as plane crashes along Melbourne street

A person is dead after a fiery plane crash on a street in a beachside suburb of Melbourne, police say.

The plane crash in Melbourne.

The plane crash in Melbourne. Source: AAP

Transport safety investigators will descend on a suburban Melbourne street where a small plane crashed and burst into flames, killing its pilot and narrowly missing homes.

A 50-year-old man was found dead inside the single-engine Cessna 172 after it crashed in residential Scarlet Street at Mordialloc just after 5pm on Friday.

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