Carroll County Fire Chief Scott Blue confirms in a phone interview three people died in the Wednesday crash just off the runway at West Georgia Regional Airport.
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Two single-engine small planes collided in mid-air on Wednesday in western Georgia city of the USA, killing three people on board, said U.S. federal officials.
Federal officials say a deadly plane crash in western Georgia was caused by two small aircraft colliding in midair.
The two planes involved in the crash were single-engine aircrafts, a Diamond DA20C1 and a Beech F33A. Witnesses said both planes appeared to be in a landing pattern.
Carroll County Sheriff Capt. Jeff Richards called into Channel 2 Action News at Noon and said one of the planes was a training plane and was possibly based locally.
Neither aircraft had a voice recorder on board, so investigators must rely on eyewitness accounts and evidence from the wreckage as they piece together what happened. “One plane set down on top of the other and they both tumbled into the ground”.
The FAA and the NTSB were on scene most of the evening gathering evidence as to what caused the crash.
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