The National Transportation Safety Board identified the plane as a Luscombe 8A.
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All five people aboard that aircraft died, according to NTSB spokesman Peter Knudsen.
Sunbury attorney Michael Apfelbaum, his wife and her father were killed Monday in a plane crash near Piedmont Triad worldwide Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Kevin Baker, PTI’s executive director, told the Winston-Salem Journal the pilot was likely unable to tell the control tower what the problem was on the plane right before the crash.
A search and rescue team from the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department was used to locate the crash site and recover the bodies. The NTSB spokesman said that controllers tried to steer the pilot to the airport, without success.
The plane crashed at the Vulcan Materials East Forsyth Quarry off N.C. 66 near Horneytown, south of Kernersville, the Greensboro News & Record said.
“It (the plane) straightaway was raised in flames”, said John McCollum, a telecommunicator with the use of Forsyth EMS.
The pilot and two passengers were killed.
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Such fatal crashes are not rare. The vast majority of those deaths were on personal-use aircraft.
