Posted on 10/19/2004 8:33:51 PM PDT by xjcsa
(Near MILLARD, Mo.) A small plane has crashed tonight south of Kirksville Regional Airport. The aircraft was inbound from St. Louis to Kirksville Regional Airport with 13-15 passengers onboard. We're told that the plane is one of the daily flights between Kirksville and St. Louis.
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Authorities have confirmed a fire in a wooded area. No word yet on complete injuries or deaths. So far law enforcement tells KTVO that 2 survivors have been found and transported to Northeast Regional, 5 are unaccounted for at this time and there are several fatalities.
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(Excerpt) Read more at ktvotv3.com ...
Prayers going up...
Wow, almost double-posted. Glad I checked first.
Prayers for those involved.
In my comment, should be "*an* American Connection carrier". Hate it when people do that; hate it worse when I do.
thats two that i've read about today.
I think you did double post, but that's okay because I prayed twice. You might want to hit the "abuse" button on the 10:35pm thread.
here it is in atlanta:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249905/posts
Then I guess I almost triple posted....ouch....
(I suggest people don't insert any images from Airliners.net unless they want trouble from that Euro site.)
On my local news report:
8 dead
2 survivors
3 missing
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.
It happens.
Title should read "Kirksville" (would help with searching).
Commuter Plane Crashes Near Kirksville
by Greg Johnson
of the Post Dispatch
10/19/2004
An American Airlines Connection flight from St. Louis carrying 12 people to Kirksville, Mo., crashed near its destination about 7:30 Tuesday night, the second time in a week a jet crashed in the state.
Early reports indicated five of the twelve people on board the plane died, according to Elizabeth Isham Cory of the Federal Aviation Administration. There were 13 passengers and two crew members on the plane.
The flight, which she said left St. Louis at 6:42 p.m., was scheduled to land shortly after 7:30 in Kirksville. The last contact with the plane was at 7:33 p.m., she said, and there was no sign of trouble.
The plane crashed about 4 miles south of the airport there, she said.
The plane, a Jetstream 31 twin engine , was American Airlines Connectionflight 5966 operated by Corporate Airlines.
(excerpted from stltoday.com story)
Some confusion within the article over the number of passengers on board. Note that this aircraft flies without a flight attendant.
Also, in contradiction to the stltoday.com story, this aircraft is not, strictly speaking, a jet. It is a twin-engine turboprop.
Names will likely take a day or two. Notifications, verification, all that.
Yep. Honeywell TPE331 engines with Dowty props.
We also had a plane crash in Jefferson City a couple days ago in which the pilot and co-pilot were killed. No passengers onboard.
I flew on one of those once. It wasn't fun. The pilot looked at each of the passengers, 7-8 of us. He arranged seating by the size of each person. I'm a white knuckle flier anyway.
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