Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet Crashes into Indiana Home

[Lotro]

From thestar.com

SOUTH BEND, IND.—A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighbourhood, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane, authorities and witnesses said.

The Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet had left Tulsa, Okla., and crashed near South Bend Regional Airport, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. Two of four people aboard the plane were killed, he said, and it was not clear if anyone on the ground was killed.

There was an “indication of a mechanical problem,” he said.

The plane was registered to a Montana company, owned by Wes Caves, that makes window film and paint overlay for automobiles. A woman identifying herself as Caves’ wife answered the phone at their home Sunday and said, “I think he’s dead.”

In South Bend, Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said the presence of jet fuel made the situation “very dangerous.” The plane was lodged inside a house and rescuers couldn’t enter until the house was stabilized, he said.

Mike Daigle, executive director of the local airport Authority, said the jet attempted a landing, went back up and manoeuvred south to try another landing, but eight minutes later the plane was no longer airborne.

Neighbour Stan Klaybor said the jet clipped the top of one house, heavily damaged a second, and finally came to rest against a third. .

[HighT5]

A Beech Premier also crashed about 3 weeks ago with fatalities...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/ ... 0D20130221

[kevinsky18]

Actually there has been three fatal premier 1A crashes in the past three weeks. 2 in the US and 1 in France.