تصحيحاً للخبر السابق - فقد أتضح أن يوجد 5 أشخاص على متن الطائرة بمن فيهم كابتن الطائرة ومساعدة بحسب التصريح الذي ورد إلى مكالة أنباء أسوشيتد بريس
فقد تحطمت الطائرة في مدينة أوكلاهوما عصر الثلاثاء بعد إقلاعها بقليل، وقد أدى الحادث إلى مقتل خمسة أشخاص بمن فيهم كابتن الطائرة ومساعدة وكلنت الطائرة من نوع سيسنا 500
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A small jet carrying a former missionary, a church deacon and three businessmen crashed in a wooded area shortly after takeoff, killing all five people aboard.
The cause is under investigation, but some witnesses said it appeared a bird was sucked into one of the Cessna 500's engines before the airplane went out of control Tuesday afternoon and crashed about 5 miles from Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City.
A friend identified the pilot and co-pilot as Tim Hartman of Yukon and Rick Sandoval of Weatherford. Hartman was a deacon at the South Yukon Church of Christ, while Sandoval spent 10 years as a Church of Christ missionary in Brazil before returning with his family to his western Oklahoma hometown.
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; and Lloyd G. Austin.
"These men connected with everyone they came in contact with on a personal level, in a way that affected us all," the company said in a statement on its website.