Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Downed Plane Investigation Continues
KENTUCKY...
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board into the crash of a Hawker Beechcraft 58 which occurred in a remote area of the Daniel Boone National Forest continues. When air traffic controllers lost radar contact with the plane just before 12:30 P.M. Tuesday, it was flying at 2,500 feet about 15 miles southwest of Hazard. Wednesday, Dr. Emily Craig of the state Medical Examiner's Office was at the crash site, which is between Chandler Branch and Ulysses Creek roads near the community of Sizerock in western Leslie County. Coroners from other counties also came to help with the work of confirming the number of victims and their identities. Leslie County emergency management director James Couch says the plane, which had been traveling from Frederick, Md., to Olive Branch, Miss., does not appear to have clipped trees before crashing.
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board into the crash of a Hawker Beechcraft 58 which occurred in a remote area of the Daniel Boone National Forest continues. When air traffic controllers lost radar contact with the plane just before 12:30 P.M. Tuesday, it was flying at 2,500 feet about 15 miles southwest of Hazard. Wednesday, Dr. Emily Craig of the state Medical Examiner's Office was at the crash site, which is between Chandler Branch and Ulysses Creek roads near the community of Sizerock in western Leslie County. Coroners from other counties also came to help with the work of confirming the number of victims and their identities. Leslie County emergency management director James Couch says the plane, which had been traveling from Frederick, Md., to Olive Branch, Miss., does not appear to have clipped trees before crashing.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 3:05 PM 
