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.