By By Micheal Chukwuebuka
THREE persons lost their lives after a single-engine plane crashed in Tennessee.
According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mooney M20TN crashed south of Upper Cumberland Regional Airport in Sparta on Saturday.
The airport’s director, Dean Selby, on Sunday, identified the three victims as Jonathan Braun, the pilot, and Dylan Clay Davis and Kelsie Lynn Davis, a married couple from Alabama.
The airport heard reports of an aircraft going down at approximately 11:50 a.m, according to Selby.
Shortly after, the Memphis Air Traffic Control Center called the airport to say it had lost communication and contact with an aircraft.
The plane departed from Alabama and was on its descent into the airport when it crashed, Selby said.
Emergency management and fire and rescue workers, along with volunteers, looked for the crash site and were able to find it after the airport sent a plane up to search from the air, the director said.
Selby described the area where the plane was found as “remote.”
The Federal Aviation Administration, which said it is investigating, arrived on site a few hours after the crash, Selby said. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation, said it will arrive Sunday.
Sparta is about 96 miles southeast of Nashville.
Source: NBC NEWS
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