The medical examiner has not released the identities of the two people killed, but Cook Medical, a company based out of Bloomington said the people on board the plane were Bill Gibbons and his teeange daughter Abbey. It’s unclear what sort of aircraft is believed to have crashed and there’s no report on accidents.
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Cook Medical released a statement about the incident on Saturday.
Search crews found the wreckage of a plane crash in a rural area of East Tennessee.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said an investigation into what caused the Lancair COL4 to crash near Johnson City, Tennessee, Friday night is ongoing.
According to the Johnson City Press, the small plane was headed to Bloomington when it crashed near Knoxville, Tennessee around 7:15 p.m. Friday.
Two people have been found dead at the site of a plane crash on Buffalo Mountain. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gibbons family.
Numerous witnesses prior to the confirmed plane crash said they heard a large boom, as well as saw a flash of light.
A helicopter helped ground crews locate the wreckage. Washington County, Tennessee crews joined the effort Saturday morning. Search efforts were hampered by bad weather and poor visibility.
Flight Controllers said they lost contact with a single-engine aircraft in the region around that time.
News Channel 11’s Jordan Moore reports a new command post was established Saturday morning off Dry Creek Road.
Jenkins Forensic Center team started heading up the mountain to photograph and process the scene, according to our NBC station in the area, WCYB.
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“Right now, we’re not looking at how or why it went down”, Shawn Etcher, an NTSB air safety inspector, said before going to the crash site.
