Plane down in NC

[epic!]

STATESVILLE - Two people were killed and two were injured after a single-engine plane crashed just outside the Statesville airport Friday afternoon.
The plane crashed shortly after noon, according to Iredell County dispatch.
Four people were unconscious when emergency crews arrived at the scene. Two people have been confirmed dead and two others are listed in critical condition.
6NEWS reporter Alex Reed is at the scene. Stay with WCNC.com for more details on this breaking news story.

i heard from a friend it was a cirrus. god bless those affected by this crash

 

[The_Russian]

Another Cirrus?

 

[FlyingSkip]

2 Killed In Plane Crash At Statesville Airport

POSTED: 12:25 pm EDT October 27, 2006
UPDATED: 6:19 pm EDT October 27, 2006

STATESVILLE, N.C. -- A small plane crashed at the Statesville Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others early Friday.

Officials said just after noon the single-engine private plane overshot the runway and crashed into a wooded area several hundred yards away.

Emergency crews arrived within minutes and took the two survivors to the hospital. They said a woman, the pilot's sister, was critically injured but the pilot of the Cirrus SR22, Edward A. Sasso of Troutman, walked away from the crash. Both are at Baptist Hospital.

Airport leaders said the plane flew out of Florida and was scheduled to land at Lake Norman Airpark Airport, but because of low clouds and fog was forced to attempt to land in Statesville.

Lee Cauble said she saw the plane as it approached the runway. She said it looked like the pilot missed the runway and then tried to circle back around for another try.

"We saw he got a little too low, and then as he got too low he clipped the trees, nose of it went down – he went straight down," she said.

Jap Johnson was in the airport terminal and heard the crash. He ran to help.

"It was a total loss," he said. "The motor was over on the side on one wing."

Now investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration will try to decide what went wrong, whether it was mechanical error or pilot error and whether the overcast weather had anything to do with it. Investigators are expected to be on the scene through Saturday.

Cauble said she felt helpless watching the plane crash.

"It was almost like slow motion; you just watched it go and there was nothing you could do," she said.

 

[epic!]

im sure it was weather related...its been IMC all day

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

News media is all jacked up as expected, but seems to have been 300 over in rain. Appears to be a missed approach/approach accident. Depends on which good ole boy from the airport that the news interviewed. I dumped the various "eyewitnesses" that were interviewed who were passing along on the road.....most of them were doing good to tell that it was an airplane and not a car!!

 

[Squanto]

KeroseneSnorter,

Great name....dumb A$$ comment regarding local population in NC. There are the same number of idiots wherever you call home. They have been watching planes in N.C. since Dec 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk.

Remember they made fun of two other "hicks" when they first started out: Chuck Yeager (West Virginia) and Bob Hoover (Nashville). Those guys know a little more than your average bear when it comes to aviation.

Stay on subject and put down the glue...warm rgs.

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

KeroseneSnorter,

Great name....dumb A$$ comment regarding local population in NC. There are the same number of idiots wherever you call home. They have been watching planes in N.C. since Dec 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk.

Remember they made fun of two other "hicks" when they first started out: Chuck Yeager (West Virginia) and Bob Hoover (Nashville). Those guys know a little more than your average bear when it comes to aviation.

Stay on subject and put down the glue...warm rgs.

I was raised and live in NC you retard.......and I stand by my comments regarding the clowns that the local news put on TV and their "eyewitness" accounts. The two they interviewed were your garden variety redneck that could probably tell you alot about how to catch a Bass but didn't know squat about airplanes.

Nothing against rednecks mind you....I am part redneck as well!