مقتل 6 أشخاص في تحطم طائرة من نوع كينج اير - Six Dead in KingAir C90 Plane Crash
التاريخ: الجمعة 01-02-2008 الموافق 23 محرم 1429هـ
Feb 26, 2008
نوع الطائرة: كينج اير سي90
Beechcraft King Air 90
مكان الحادث: الشمال الغربي، كارولينا، امريكا
Northwest North Carolina
تابعة لشركة:Blue Sky Airways Inc -Dallas Ga
عدد الضحايا: 6 أشخاص
مكان الحادث: N57WR
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MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) -- Federal investigators say it could be days before they make preliminary determinations about what caused a private plane to crash while trying to land at the Mount Airy airport.
The crash killed all six aboard. Investigators recovered the plane's voice recorder from the wreckage of the King Air C-90-A.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Gunther says investigators did not believe inflight fire or mechanical control failure caused the crash.
Six men aboard the plane were headed to a hunting trip in Virginia when the plane crashed.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the aircraft appeared to come in to land too high and veered off to come back when it crashed.
Investigators said the plane left the Polk County airport at 10:24 am.
John Shelton, Surry County's director of emergency services, identified the six victims as 46-year-old Hal Echols, 46-year-old Steve Simpson,; 49-year-old Robert Butler; 46-year-old Tony Gunther; 52-year-old Frank Ruggiero; and 50-year-old John Wesley Rakestraw, who was piloting the plane when it took off.
The Georgia governor's office says Rakestraw, Simpson and Echols were prominent Georgia Republicans.