A Chattanooga woman was killed Wednesday when a plane she was in collided with another small plane midair in western Georgia.
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The airport is located about 50 miles west of Atlanta and has no air traffic controllers or control tower.
“Basically both planes were coming in on a final approach at the same time and it appears one may not have seen the other and sat down on top of it and they tumbled into the ground”, Carroll County Sheriff’s deputy Captain Jeff Richards said.
It was unclear if Stone, a pilot and flight instructor, was flying the plane at the time of the crash. Witnesses said both planes appeared to be in a landing pattern.
The cause of the deadly collision was under investigation.
Officials said the victims were two males and one female, but investigators have not released their names or ages.
Sources say Bud Benefield, a deputy fire chief for Carroll County, confirmed the crash happened Wednesday near West Georgia Regional Airport.
One of the planes was a Beechcraft Bonanza; the other a Diamond DA20. None of the dead had been identified Wednesday afternoon, the fire chief said.
“Our unit when they first came thought it was one plane”, Blue said.
Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
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