Authorities have not given details on the number of those on the jet, except to say it’s presumed that none of them survived and that a pilot and co-pilot were among them.
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Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters Thursday that the plane’s cockpit recorder was damaged in the crash – but the tape inside it wasn’t.
A go team has been deployed by the NTSB to Akron to look into the crash, as reported by the Sun Sentinel.
Authorities were back on the scene Wednesday morning to try to recover the bodies. Preliminary evidence also shows a wing of the plane left a “witness mark” after striking the ground before the crash.
“Our hearts are broken this morning with the news of the tragic accident that took the lives of two principals and five employees of Pebb Enterprises”, said a statement on the company website Wednesday.
While the NTSB picks up the pieces and tries to make sense of it all, a team of forensic anthropologists with experience from September 11, 2001 attacks has been called in to positively identify all nine people on board the plane who died in Akron on Tuesday afternoon.
The jet took off from Dayton and planned to land at Akron Fulton global Airport, about 2 miles from where it crashed.
Two people aboard the plane have been confirmed dead. Dinh-Zarr says there will be a very detailed examination of these recordings to learn more about what happened.
Roberta Porter lives about a block away from the Akron crash site. The Hawker H-25 twin engine jet clipped utility wires and crashed in flames into a four-unit apartment building.
Janes says he saw the plane coming down while he was driving to work. The plane then hit an embankment beyond the building, causing a nearby house to also burn.
About six minutes after the plane crashed, Bartley drove up to his normally quiet, residential neighborhood and found thick smoke and orange flames filled the sky.
No was inside the complex at the time of the crash, and no one on the ground was injured.
NEW HARTFORD, NY- A New Hartford native was killed in a plane crash in Ohio.
Ohio State Patrol spokesman Bill Haymaker said the pilot and co-pilot as well as an unknown number of passengers were killed. “However, we are dealing with… occupants right now that are deceased at this time and it’s unfortunate”.
According to the pilot that arrived before the schedule of the Hawker H25, there wasn’t any distress calls on the radio frequency that pilots use to communicate near the airport.
The plane reportedly clipped an apartment building before going down. It’s unclear if there were any injuries.
A project manager assistant, Suriel had a degree in architecture from Florida Atlantic University and joined the company in June, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Emergency crews are on the scene. No other information is available.
