A northeast OH woman says a small business jet “just dropped out of the sky” before crashing into an apartment building nearby.
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The front of the two-story apartment building was destroyed.
The house went on fire but no one was injured on the ground.
“The plane became engulfed in flames, which ignited the residence that it originally struck, and then also continued on to another residence”, he said.
There was a fire following the crash that initially kept investigators from checking the cabin.
Porter says it’s scary to think that if she’d been driving faster the plane may have clipped her vehicle.
Staff Lieutenant Bill Haymaker of the Ohio State Highway Patrol described the plane’s final path. The aircraft clipped electrical and telephone wires before hitting a small apartment building and careening into an embankment.
Akron area media are reporting that two people have been killed in the accident. No one on the ground was hurt.
In 1993, three men died when a small plane crashed into a vacant lot, narrowly missing homes in the city’s Kenmore neighborhood.
Witnesses reported hearing explosions when the plane hit.
Summit County Medical Examiner Dr. Lisa Kohler says a mass-fatality plan is in place to identify the victims and will begin Wednesday at daybreak.
The Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and other state and local officials planned to hold a news conference around noon Wednesday at the crash site.
Paige McVeigh was recording a video on the Snapchat app when the crash happened.
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The FAA has two investigators on the scene right now, with two more on the way.
