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 8 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 Connection flight 5966 operated by Corporate Airlines.
On Thursday, a 50-seat jet crashed into a residential neighborhood near Jefferson City. The pilot and co-pilot were killed. No one else was on the plane and no one on the ground was injured. The cause of that crash is under investigation.
Again, according to a local NBC reporter at the scene, one of the survivors
remembers hitting the tops of trees with no sign of problems from the pilots.