Twin-engine plane crashes in Western N.C.
UNAKA, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a twin-engine plane en route
from Georgia to Kentucky has crashed in a mountainous western area
of North Carolina, killing people aboard.
Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin told the Asheville
Citizen-Times that Wednesday’s crash resulted in “multiple
fatalities.” He did not elaborate.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen
confirmed that a Beech Baron 58 aircraft had gone down about 4:15
p.m. Wednesday near the small community of Unaka, about 125 miles
west of Asheville in a region near the state line with Tennessee.
Rescue personnel say the plane’s wreckage is accessible only by
all-terrain vehicle and on foot.
Bergen said the plane had left a suburban Atlanta airport
earlier in the day, bound for Hazard, Ky.
The plane is registered to Aero Resources Corp. of Hazard.
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