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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused a small plane to crash in southern Indiana, killing the two people on board.The plane went down shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday, between Highway 111 and the Ohio River in Floyd County, near the Harrison County line.The NTSB arrived at the scene around 11:30 a.m. Monday.
Raw VideoLate Monday afternoon, under rapid fire questioning by reporters, investigators offered little detail into what may have happened.They said there were two people on board the six-seat Piper PA 46 turbine conversion plane.David and Liz Schump left coastal Georgia, flew to Paducah and were on their way to Bowman Field, in Louisville, when the plane went down, investigators.
The WLKY NewsChopper was flying Sunday night, covering flooding, when air traffic controllers asked pilot Bill DeReamer to check out reports of an aircraft down in the Ohio River or in a field near the casino.DeReamer and the WLKY NewsChopper quickly spotted the plane in the field."I was leaving work and I looked up and I saw something white, and it just all of the sudden started corkscrewing and going toward the river. And I thought at first it was just a toy plane, and then I got up here (to the scene) and realized it was a plane," said witness Linda Bowman.
Other witnesses said the plane spiraled out of control before it fell out of the sky.David's brother, Jim Schump, said he was an experienced pilot."He’s a very experienced pilot. I think something must have gone wrong with the plane. Maybe he had a heart attack or something because he was such a good pilot, that if something did go wrong, he’s a glider pilot, he should have been able to make some sort of landing in the field. I don’t know what happened," Jim Schump said. “We will be looking at radar data, air traffic control information, weather. Those are some of the things we do on these investigations," NTSB investigator-in-charge Mitchell Gallo said.The Schumps were planning to spend the night in Louisville before flying to their Windsor, Colo., home on Monday.Final medical and NTSB reports are not expected for weeks.
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