Plane crash near Atlanta kills 3 www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA Mar 9 2009
Emergency crews resumed their search Monday morning for the body of the third victim of a plane crash near Carrollton.
The 1975 Cessna 182, a single-engine four-seater, left Cobb County Airport-McCollum Field Sunday morning and crashed into Shadinger Lake about 9 a.m. about three miles southwest of the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
The first crews to arrive at the scene found the bodies of a man and a woman. Their identities had not been released by early Monday.
“We have confirmed with the airport there were three people who entered the plane, and someone saw the plane taxi away . There appeared to be two men and a female,” said Gary Thomas of Carroll County Fire Rescue.
Shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, crews using a crane pulled the left side of the plane’s cockpit, four seats and a badly mangled fuselage and tail section from the water. The cockpit’s right side and the aircraft’s engine and wings remained in the lake. There was no sign of the third victim.
Thomas said divers think they know the approximate location of the rest of the plane.
Officials said the people in the plane were headed to the Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR race in Henry County. Clayton County Airport-Tara Field is next to the racetrack.
Katy McKenzie, who lives near the lake, said she was lying in bed Sunday morning when she heard a sound.
“I heard the plane’s engine sputtering. It sounded like it was coming through my bedroom window,” McKenzie said. She looked out her window — it was foggy — and heard a huge splash.
“It looked like there was a hurricane on the lake,” with big oceanlike waves, McKenzie said. She ran outside, but all she could see was debris.
Divers were called in from Spalding County to assist in the recovery effort because they had special equipment — full face masks and dry suits — to dive in fuel-contaminated water, officials said.
Bergen said the airplane had a registration number of N1913M. Online records show that plane to be registered to four men, including one from Roswell. The pilot had not filed a flight plan.
“It’s not unusual for that type of plane to not file a flight plan as long as the weather is clear,” Bergen said. She said investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will determine a probable cause of the crash.
Emergency crews resumed their search Monday morning for the body of the third victim of a plane crash near Carrollton.
The 1975 Cessna 182, a single-engine four-seater, left Cobb County Airport-McCollum Field Sunday morning and crashed into Shadinger Lake about 9 a.m. about three miles southwest of the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
The first crews to arrive at the scene found the bodies of a man and a woman. Their identities had not been released by early Monday.
“We have confirmed with the airport there were three people who entered the plane, and someone saw the plane taxi away . There appeared to be two men and a female,” said Gary Thomas of Carroll County Fire Rescue.
Shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, crews using a crane pulled the left side of the plane’s cockpit, four seats and a badly mangled fuselage and tail section from the water. The cockpit’s right side and the aircraft’s engine and wings remained in the lake. There was no sign of the third victim.
Thomas said divers think they know the approximate location of the rest of the plane.
Officials said the people in the plane were headed to the Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR race in Henry County. Clayton County Airport-Tara Field is next to the racetrack.
Katy McKenzie, who lives near the lake, said she was lying in bed Sunday morning when she heard a sound.
“I heard the plane’s engine sputtering. It sounded like it was coming through my bedroom window,” McKenzie said. She looked out her window — it was foggy — and heard a huge splash.
“It looked like there was a hurricane on the lake,” with big oceanlike waves, McKenzie said. She ran outside, but all she could see was debris.
Divers were called in from Spalding County to assist in the recovery effort because they had special equipment — full face masks and dry suits — to dive in fuel-contaminated water, officials said.
Bergen said the airplane had a registration number of N1913M. Online records show that plane to be registered to four men, including one from Roswell. The pilot had not filed a flight plan.
“It’s not unusual for that type of plane to not file a flight plan as long as the weather is clear,” Bergen said. She said investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will determine a probable cause of the crash.
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