Plane crashed in Oklahoma, US
A small jet on THursday which was carrying a former missionary, a church deacon & three businessmen crashed in a wooded area in Oklahoma shortly after takeoff in which five people killed.
Some witnesses said that a bird was sucked into one of the Cessna 500’s engines before the airplane went out of control on Tuesday afternoon (local time) & crashed about eight kilometres from Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City.
The name of the pilot & co-pilot was Tim Hartmanand & Rick Sandoval. United Engines, an Oklahoma City-based distributor of diesel engines, identified three other victims as Garth C Bates Jr, the company’s president & Frank M Pool Jr, the company’s vice president & Lloyd G Austin.
An official said, “These men connected with everyone they came in contact with on a personal level, in a way that affected us all”.
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