The plane crashed four miles south of the Kirksville airport, where it was headed, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said. The plane, believed to have been a Corporate Express flight, was on a regular route from St. Louis when it crashed shortly after 7:30 p.m., she said.
The last communication from the Jetstream 32 twin turboprop indicated it was on a normal approach to Kirksville Regional Airport, and there was no mention of any problems, she said.
Cory did not know whether the number of people reported on board the plane included crew members.
Kirksville is about 220 miles northwest of St. Louis.
This bothers me about the Atlanta crash:
"More than a dozen people in the busy neighborhood witnessed the crash and described a loud noise followed by the plane spinning toward the ground before hitting the one-story shop near the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site."
"It was twisting and turning. And then you could see, like an engine or something, slide off the plane," said Terrell Holloway, who was working at a nearby pizzeria when he heard what he described as an extremely loud "engine problem" and ran to the window to see the plane.
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