Taylor Stone, 24, has been identified as one of the victims.
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The third fatality, 79-year-old William Lewis Lindsey of College Park, was alone in the other plane, Richards said.
“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.
Three people are dead in a mid-air plane crash in Carroll County.
The crash occurred at about 11 a.m. on the south end of the airport.
One of the planes was registered to a private citizen and the other to a nearby flight school in Newnan, Ga., CBS 46 reported.
Carroll County Fire Department spokesman Bud Benefield told WSB-TV that the crash happened near West Georgia Regional Airport.
Witnesses and emergency personnel said that the planes appeared to try and land at the same time.
Blue said wreckage from the planes was so mixed together that first responders initially thought the debris all belonged to a single aircraft.
Blue says authorities have not yet identified those who died.
The small airport is a “non-controlled airspace” which means that it has neither an air-traffic controllers nor any control tower.
The Federal Aviation Administration has begun to investigate the case along with National Transportation Safety Board, which will determine the official cause of the collision. The airport is located in Carrollton, about 45 miles west of Atlanta.
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Benefield did not immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.
