Posted on 06/08/2025 12:57:10 PM PDT by DFG
Police say that around 12:15 pm, a skydiving plane crashed on Old Shelbyville Road in Tullahoma, Tenn., near the Tullahoma Regional Airport on Sunday.
Allegedly, there were approximately 16 to 20 people on the plane. Four individuals were taken to the hospital, two of them with critical injuries, while the other two sustained non-critical injuries.
Supposedly, the aircraft was reportedly a Tullahoma skydiving plane that crashed after clipping some trees, landing next to the Beechcraft Museum.
Local authorities are at the scene, and FAA officials are on their way to the scene to start their investigation.
This is an ongoing story, we will update once we receive more information.
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the one time skydiving made sense.
LOL!
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Looks like a Twin Otter.
Are the writers high school juniors? “Supposedly”, “allegedly”? WTF happened to editors and producers?
article was extremely thin on details ... if the plane was LANDING, then the only people that should have been on it were the pilot and copilot ... crash on TAKEOFF is another matter ....
Yep!
So much so that it can't be anything else. There's a very high probability that it will be completely repaired and flying again.
That could have been a lot worse.
I would never jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Not sure if I would have jumped out of this one or not.
I had a coworker once who liked to jump in the late 90s.
She had over 2000 jumps, and asked me I would come jump with her.
Sometimes I wonder if she is still alive.
The pilot may have run into engine trouble before reaching the drop zone, and may not be used to landing with that much weight on board since he or she normally landed an empty plane.
"So you might as well..."
Seriously though; the pilot must have had problems before proper height was attained and instructed the passengers to stay strapped in. Getting to ground without fatalities is a GREAT landing.
The last time I buy any parts from China.
Well I will wonder if they will be putting this Aircraft in the Beechcraft Museum ?
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