The Federal Aviation Administration said investigators were on site, along with a team from the National Transportation Safety Board, which will lead the probe.
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Dinh-Zarr said there was no distress call from the plane before it went down.
No one on the ground was injured in the crash, according to Staff Lieutenant Bill Haymaker of the Highway Patrol, although 11 families were displaced. The plane in question had been rented by the company.
Police say the business jet was approaching Akron Airport when it clipped a telephone wire and hit an apartment building.
The cockpit voice recorder is on its way to Washington D.C.to be analyzed, according to Dinh-Zarr. Nobody on the ground was hurt.
“This plane just dropped out of the sky, veered and crashed into the apartment building”, Porter said. Lauderdale Executive Airport. The plane’s owner, Augusto Lewkowicz, said two pilots and seven passengers were on the flight.
He left home to run errands Monday and took slightly longer than planned because he stopped to buy the microwavable turnovers for dinner and breakfast.
Local authorities have not said how many people in total were on board but will provide more information from the crash site at noon. “That was a very tough thing for me”, owner of Execuflight Danny Lekowicz said. He says thinking about it has made him feel nauseated and want to cry, but he’s also very grateful.
The Raytheon Hawker 125-700 10-passenger charter crashed about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday into a four unit-apartment building in the 3000 block of Mogadore Road.
The sound of the crash sent residents running out of their homes as a massive fire engulfed the apartment building.
In a statement, Pebb Enterprises said that “our hearts are broken” for the “unimaginable loss” of its seven employees. No names have been released. They crashed 36 minutes after leaving Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport.
The NTSB has security camera footage that shows the seconds leading up to the crash, Dinh-Zarr said. Smoot was part of the seven-person team from the real estate company that had been criss-crossing the Midwest in recent days.
Raider’s Saturn is still covered in soot from Tuesday, and he admitted to coming back to the scene Wednesday.
“We are shocked and deeply saddened for the families, colleagues and friends of those who perished”, Pebb Enterprises said on its website.
It’s not clear what caused the crash.
The the 10-seat Hawker H25 jet was based out of Ft.
Investigators returned to the site Wednesday morning at first light. Although officials have not identified the victims as of Wednesday afternoon, they say all nine passengers on board have died. The 50-year-old Smoot was with a group of executives from Pebb Enterprises, a company that scouts locations for shopping malls, her sister told Cleveland.com.
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That task will be aided by 22 people, including forensic anthropologists from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa., she said.
