By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A small plane crashed next to an interstate highway in Nashville, Tennessee, killing all five people on board.
Stonix News reports that the single-engine plane, on Monday night, crashed close to a Costco store on the eastbound lanes of the I-40, near the Nashville suburb of Charlotte Park.
As of when filing this report, none of the victims had been named and no other vehicles or buildings were hit.
In a statement early Tuesday, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority said it was alerted of a single engine aircraft crash three miles south of John C. Tune Airport, near I-40.
Authorities said the pilot had requested an emergency landing at nearby John Tune Airport, having radioed to say he was having engine trouble.
“Approval was given to land on runway 2 at John Tune Airport, but the pilot then radioed that the aircraft was not going to make it,” Don Aaron, public affairs director at MNPD, said in a news conference at the crash scene.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell sent his thoughts and prayers to the victims via a posted on X:
“Our thoughts go out to the loved ones of all those on board the single-engine aircraft that crashed near Interstate 40 this evening.”
Also, Nashville Fire Department spokesperson Kendra Loney was at the crash scene late Monday. He told newsmen that “the impact was catastrophic and did not leave any survivors.”
Loney added that firefighters were able to extinguish the flames and preserve evidence that may help to determine the cause of the crash.
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