التاريخ: الأحد، 11 أكتوبر 2015
المكان: ولاية نورث كارولينا الأمريكية
الضحايا: شخصين
لقى شخصان مصرعهما إثر تحطم طائرة خفيفة بولاية " نورث كارولينا " الأمريكية . وذكرت شبكة "ايه بى سى نيوز" الإخبارية الأمريكية الليلة أن الطائرة ذات المحرك الواحد ارتطمت أثناء سقوطها بأحد المنازل الواقعة على بعد ميل واحد من مطار " ليك تاهوى " مما أدى إلى اشتعال النيران بالمنزل ، غير أن قوات الإطفاء المحلية تمكنت من السيطرة على النيران ، وإنقاذ شخصين كانا داخل المنزل لدى وقوع الحادث . وبدأت إدارة سلامة الطيران الفيدرالى الأمريكى تحقيقاتها للوقوف على أسباب الحادث الذى وقع بعد وقت قصير من إقلاع الطائرة.
Date: 11 October 2015
Sheriff identifies father, daughter killed in Buffalo Mountain plane crash
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office officially released the names of the victims of a fatal plane crash that happened Friday night.
The pilot and passenger who were killed when a small plane crashed in Tennessee on Friday night have been identified as a Bloomington, Indiana, man and his daughter.
The Bloomington Herald Times reports that Cook Medical in a statement said that vice president of engineering William S. Gibbons Jr. and his daughter, Abbey, were killed when the plane crashed into Buffalo Mountain.
The girl was a sophomore at Bloomington High School South. According to one of her teachers, she was a great French student and a cheerleader. She has a twin brother, and she would have turned 16 in December, reports Fox.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says the plane was heading to Bloomington from Knoxville, Tennessee, when it crashed Friday night on the mountain located southwest of Johnson City.
The National Transportation Safety Board inspector told the Johnson City Press in Tennessee that it would take six months to a year to determine why the plane crashed.
The plane went down around 7:15 p.m. on Friday and according to emergency radio communications, traffic controllers at Tri-Cities Regional Airport lost contact with Gibbon's Jr. at about 14,000 feet, reports