Posted on 04/21/2022 11:31:40 PM PDT by Morgana
A small plane crashed in a parking lot near an industrial plant east of Atlanta on Thursday evening, sending a plume of black smoke overhead, authorities and local news reports said.
Police said it appeared no one aboard the plane survived - but federal authorities said they couldn't immediately identify the plane and had no information about its occupant or occupants.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries to anyone on the ground at the plant, which produces General Mills cereals.
Covington police told local reporters the aircraft crashed in an isolated parking lot near an industrial plant just off Interstate 20, a major east-west artery in Georgia. That community about 35 miles east of downtown Atlanta.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the crash happened near an industrial building around 7 p.m.
'We don't have additional information at this time,' said the FAA statement emailed by one of its spokespeople.
Their statement added that the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
The FAA added that more details would be released later after investigators verify the plane's registration number at the scene.
News outlet WSB TV reported that no one survived the crash, citing police sources - though it wasn't immediately known who or how many were aboard.
It said the plane came down about 300 yards from an industrial facility into four empty tractor-trailers.
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another food processing plant...it happens all the time..../s/
Tucker Carlson brought up all these food plants being destroyed by fire and mentioned this air accident. He asked “What’s going on here?”
I saw that. He said in the past six months there have been fires, explosions, etc.
Pilot got a bad box?
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Police added that according to witnesses, the plane took off from the Covington Municipal Airport at 6:45 p.m. and add trouble gaining altitude. Witnesses told police the plane was heading northeast when it suddenly veered right before crashing.
According to Malcom, the propeller plane took off from the Covington Municipal Airport around 6:45 p.m. Witnesses reported hearing the plane’s engine sputter as it struggled to gain altitude while taking off.
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A small plane crashed in a parking lot near the General Mills factory in Covington on Thursday evening.
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
“Suddenly the plane veered to the right, and immediately came straight down and crashed into the lot behind us,” Malcom said, standing outside the General Mills plant, about a half mile from the airport’s north runway.
The plane went down along Industrial Park Boulevard, just off Interstate 20, and crashed in a lot where tractor trailers are stored, the police captain indicated. He said the plane collided with four of the big rigs and exploded on impact.
Well isn’t that an interesting coincidence.
“Tucker Carlson brought up all these food plants being destroyed by fire and mentioned this air accident. He asked “What’s going on here?””
Sounds like this plane missed its target.
Exactly. Didn’t do his weight and balance. Power on Stall on departure and down they went.
Much more likely to be one engine failed resulting in loss of control.
The article states that witnesses heard the engine sputtering. Sounds like a typical loss of power on takeoff in a single.
“stalled and augered in.”
Why would he ‘auger’ in? He should have been able to glide for a distance (depending on altitude) unless the pilot became incapacitated.
Sorry, I just read the ‘twin engine’ part. If he didn’t trim up immediately then yeah.
The headline says “light twin”.
Any twin under a Beech King Air is a handful if one engine quits. That is especially true during departure climb.
Cleaning up the aircraft....gear retraction, prop feathered possibly other items depending on make and model, must be done immediately and correctly.
Rudder and aileron positions must be exactly right.
The spread between correct airspeed for climb and too slow resulting in loss of control is small and even when everything is just right rate of climb is such that obstacle clearance is a major concern.
If the headline is correct that it was a small twin, all of the above must be considered.
Of course of my #16 is on track, gross weight and CG are definite factors to be investigated.
Sounds like a typical VMC roll into the dead engine.
It was a twin engine: Perhaps as follows:
1. Engine failure
2. Failure to maintain best single engine airspeed
3. Adverse yaw due to dead engine and over aggressive rudder input
4. Stall and spin in
Sorry, I missed the twin part. Yes, an engine-out in a twin requires immediate input.
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