Plane Crash Near Anderson Municipal Airport Leaves “No Survivors”
Source: East Madison Fire Territory
ANDERSON, Ind.–A plane crashed near Anderson Municipal Airport Friday morning and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office confirms that there were “no survivors.”
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The plane went down approximately three miles southwest of the airport in the 4300 block of East County Road 100 South. That’s west of I-69 and south of the town of Chesterfield. The plane left Fort Dodge, Iowa, just after 6:45 a.m. It was supposed to land in Anderson.
“The plane was making its initial approach to the Anderson airport. They were too high. They were told to reroute and make another approach,” Capt. Darwin Dwiggins with the Madison County Sheriff’s said to reporters.
Dwiggins said the initial flight plan was for four people on board.
“We can’t verify that four people actually got on the plane. That’s just what the initial flight plan was for,” Dwiggins continued.
When investigators got to the scene, they found the smoke and flames all over the plane.
“Eyewitnesses saw the plane flying south and possibly turning back south and he just described it as flipping over and nosediving in the cornfield and bursting into flames,” said Dwiggins.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are examining the wreckage.
“It’s going to be a long process moving forward to clean up the wreckage, investigate the wreckage, before we can really give you much more as far as information of who these people are,” Dwiggins said.
They are trying to figure out what caused the crash.
