NEW YORK – Cleanup efforts are underway in communities across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast after a dayslong, deadly nor’easter pounded communities with coastal flooding , heavy rain and powerful winds that plunged thousands into darkness and led to travel misery at major airports across the region.

Officials in New York said an 86-year-old woman in Brooklyn was killed when a solar panel broke loose in high winds, hitting her while she was on a sidewalk.

And in Massachusetts , a plane crashed onto a busy highway Monday morning in Dartmouth as the nor'easter was slamming New England , killing two people on the plane and leaving one person injured on the ground.

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