A private charter plane crashed on residential area in Akron, Ohio on Tuesday. The plane plowed into an apartment building and exploded. And based on the information shared by Akron Beacon Journal, no one among the passengers survived, around nine people are feared dead.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol affirmed the reports that they did not find any survivors in the 10-seater passenger plane. However, they cannot confirm as of yet, the exact number of people who were in the doomed plane when it crashed.
State Highway Patrol Lt. Bill told NBC News that because the fire was so severe, confirming the number or passenger on the Hawker H25 would take some time.
The accident was said to have happened at 2:54 p.m. The home situated at 3042 Mogadore Road was wrecked and totally consumed by the fire when aircraft crashed into it.
Moreover, based on what the authorities saw, the plane appeared to have hit power lines first before finally slamming into the apartment complex. The wreckage strewn all over the place also resulted to the quick spread of the fire nearby.
Firefighters and police responded quickly and worked on extinguishing the big fire when they arrived. The crash knocked out power in Akron and Tallmadge too.
As for any casualty on the ground, it was very fortunate that no one was around the crash site at that time. The residents of the building were also not home when it all happened.
The names of the victims were not known yet because Augusto Lewkowicz, the owner and operator of the plane, doesn't want to release the identities of the two crew and seven passengers.
"I owe responses to the family members first," Lewkowicz reasoned out for not saying their names. And commenting on the possibility that the plane may have run into technical problem while on air, the owner of the plane stated, "It was a perfectly well-maintained aircraft with no squawks."
He further pointed out that there wasn't any indication that the pilots encountered any trouble while flying the Hawker H25.
The business plane left Lunken, Cincinnati at 11:06 a.m. on the way to Dayton. Then, from Dayton, it traveled again going to Akron, but instead of landing on the right runway, at the Dayton International Airport, it hit the residential area.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) already has teams of investigators at the crash site. People from the National Transportation Safety Board have also come to help find out why the plane went down.
