General, Wife Killed in Crash: Air Force Major General Joseph D. Brown IV, Wife Sue Brown Killed in a Plane Crash Near Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport

There is an ongoing investigation to find the cause of a plane crash on Frida, in Virginia, near Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport that killed Air Force Major General Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, Sue.

Brown was piloting a Cessna 210 with his wife as a passenger when the plan went down somewhere near the airport, according to ABC News.

The crash occurred at 4:53 p.m. on Friday near Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport, where the plane was supposed to land, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller, according to The Associated Press.  There were no passengers on the plane, Geller also said.

No one on the ground was injured during the crash but the single-engine plane did come very close to hitting houses in a retirement community, witnesses told ABC.

"Another 50 feet, and they would have been in my bedroom.  The fellow next door came knocking on our door, and he says, 'You got a fire extinguisher? There's a plane just crashed next to your house,'" Bruce Ward, a resident told ABC News affiliate WVEC-TV.

Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration responded Friday and the crash scene was secured overnight until authorities from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived, Virginia State Police said, according to ABC.  The cause of the crash, however, still remains unknown.

Brown joined the Airforce in 1980 and had been the commandant of The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy in Washington D.C. since October 2010, according to the Dyess Air Force Base website.  Throughout his career he had a great deal of experience, more than 4,300 hours, piloting various aircrafts, including B-1s and B-52s, ABC adds.

The couple and their dog were killed in the crash, ABC reports.

"Their loss will be felt across our Air Force and joint team," said Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Mark A. Welsh III in a joint statement on the Dyess Air Force Base website.  They said that they mourned the loss of this couple that had, "dedicated their lives in service to our nation."