Posted on 08/26/2018 3:12:17 PM PDT by sodpoodle
A U.S. Army soldier was among four people killed when a plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed at a Georgia airport on Saturday, officials said.
The crash happened around 2 p.m. at the East Georgia Regional Airport in Swainsboro, located about 90 miles southeast of Macon, FOX54 reported.
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Wow, that’s my home town.
Prayers to all. I believe there was another fatal accident at that airport several years ago.
This was not an “accident”. I’d bet money there was a weight and balance problem. This was beyond gross negligence. Someone needs to go to prison for at least negligent homicide.
If this was a weight and balance issue, the person solely responsible would be the pilot in command, who is now dead.
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