A small plane crashed Sunday at Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod, bursting into flames and killing the pilot, who was the only person on board, officials said.
Firefighters and other emergency responders extinguished the fire at the crash site near the coastal community at the tip of Cape Cod, city officials said in a news release.
The statement added that the pilot was declared dead at the crash site.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that the plane was a Cessna 172N, and that it would investigate the accident. No initial indication of a possible cause was provided.
The airport was closed following the accident.
Provincetown is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Boston at the end of Cape Cod, the hooked peninsula that juts into the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts.