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Plane Crashes Near Tupelo Regional Airport, No Survivors Reported
Update: Photos of the plane crash that killed four people in Tupelo, Mississippi, on May 16, 2016.
Aerial photos of Tupelo plane crash. Courtesy of @WMCActionNews5. https://t.co/Amh1bxUZY6#WTVANews pic.twitter.com/GcQUd1DP5W
— WTVA 9 News (@wtva9news) May 16, 2016
WTVA in Tupelo reports that a six-passenger plane heading to Virginia has crashed near the Tupelo Regional Airport. According to the police chief, Bart Aguirre, there were no survivors of the three passengers and one pilot on board the aircraft.
“Debris, the wreckage is broken up,” Chief Aguirre said in a WTVA video. “There were no survivors that we’ve been able to locate.”
The crash happened this morning near Colonial Estate Road, which has been opened back up to traffic. The plane is reportedly a Beech Bonanza single-engine, six-seat aircraft and is registered to a company in Texas.
“We’re holding the scene for the FAA. We’ll have to wait for them to come on the scene,” Chief Aguirre said in the video. “Once they release the scene, the police department will allow the medical examiner to remove the bodies from the scene and transfer them to Jackson for autopsies and then we can start the process of cleaning the scene.”
We're on the scene of what appears to be a plane crash off Colonial Estates on the west side of Tupelo. @wtvanews pic.twitter.com/HtFyc9tq0N
— Joel Young, CBM (@joel_off_air) May 16, 2016
According to the chief, no homes or other buildings were damaged in the crash. “It’s an open field. There’s a- looks like a water treatment plant that was over in that area exactly where the plane crash happened at.”
As of right now, the police department said the cause of the crash could be mechanical, but the department cannot confirm that until the FAA does a formal investigation.
HottyToddy.com will update this story as facts become available.
Plane Crashes Near Tupelo Regional Airport, No Survivors Reported
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