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Five people died after a single-engine airplane crashed beside a highway in Nashville. The city’s metro police department said the plane crashed off the eastbound lanes past the Charlotte Pike exit. The control tower at Nashville’s John Tune Airport received a message from a pilot at about 7:40 pm ET on Monday (00.40am GMT) saying their aircraft was experiencing engine and power failure and needed permission to land. A spokesperson for the Nashville Fire Department told the television network the plane imploded on impact adding, “the impact was catastrophic and did not leave any survivors.” Co…