The plane in question flew from the Dayton-Wright Brothers airport, Miamisburg, Ohio, at about 2:13 p.m. and was headed to the Akron Fulton Airport.
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A charred vehicle and aircraft debris smolder where authorities say a small business jet crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio, Tuesday, November 10, 2015.
On the sixth floor of company headquarters, two people could be seen behind glass doors in a conference room working in front of laptop computers.
ED SUBA JR./AP Firefighters work at the scene where authorities say the business jet crashed Tuesday.
Roberta Porter lives about a block away from the Akron crash site.
The plane then slammed into an apartment building before hitting an embankment and coming to a stop. Officials originally believed it was a single-family home that was struck, but it turned out to be a four-unit building, Haymaker said.
Employees at Professional Grinding Inc., a machine shop near the crash site, ran toward the front of the building with their arms covering their heads when they heard the crash.
Porter says it’s scary to think that if she’d been driving faster the plane may have clipped her vehicle.
The plane’s owner, Danny Lewkowicz said there were nine people on board but the number of deaths has yet to be confirmed by the Summit County Coroner’s Office.
About six minutes after the plane crashed, Bartley drove up to his normally quiet, residential neighborhood and found thick smoke and orange flames filled the sky.
Dinh-Zarr also said that the NTSB has interviewed the pilot of a plane that landed at Akron-Canton airport just before the plane that crashed.
Surveillance video obtained by WJW shows the moment a plane carrying nine people crashed into an apartment building in Akron, OH on Tuesday.
A woman who lives about a block away and was driving home with her grandson at the time said she saw the plane crash into the building and burst into flames.
“And probably a second later, I heard the explosion”, Ferrell told WOIO.
Is it unsafe to ride small aircrafts such as the Hawker H25 that crashed in Ohio? Lanigan is a certified flight instructor and has flown into Akron-Fulton Airport dozens of times. According to reports, no one in the complex was injured, nor were there injuries reported on the ground.
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Emergency crews are on the scene. No other information is available.
