A mass fatality team will begin work this morning to recover the bodies of those killed when a South Florida based airplane crashed into a northern OH apartment building killing everyone on board.
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The plane was approaching Akron Fulton worldwide Airport when it crashed into the home, according to the FAA.
The house went on fire but no one was injured on the ground.
Before it could land, though, it crashed in the residential neighborhood in foggy and rainy conditions.
City authorities said in a statement that firefighters had worked to extinguish the blaze caused by the crash.
“The plane became engulfed in flames, which ignited the residence that it originally struck, and then also continued on to another residence”, Haymaker said.
It wasn’t known whether any of the crash victims were from the Akron area.
Bill Haymaker said that “due to the severity of the fire”, it would be a few time before it could be determined how many people were aboard the Hawker H25.
Danny Lewkowicz, the owner of ExecuFlight, the company that leased the aircraft, tells us there were nine people aboard the plane: a pilot, copilot and seven passengers.
The National Transportation Safety Board, the USA civil aviation authority, will investigate the crash.
A press conference is set for noon today, where officials are expected to release more details about the investigation and what happened. The Akron airport is 2 miles from where the plane crashed.
Another witness, Roberta Porter, lives about a block away from the Akron crash site.
Both ambulances and fire crews were at the scene.
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The federal source said that it appeared that the cause of the crash “appears to be mechanical”. It scraped power lines and smashed into the four-family apartment building before ending up in an embankment.
