Five employees of an environmental consulting firm died when a small airplane they were traveling in crashed outside an industrial area of Little Rock on Wednesday shortly after the plane took off, authorities said.
The twin-engine plane crashed several miles south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Cody Burk said. The Federal Aviation Administration said five people were on board the plane.
The twin-engine plane crashed a couple of miles south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Cody Burk said. The Federal Aviation Administration said five people were on board the plane.
The Beech BE20 had departed the Little Rock airport and was headed to John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, the FAA said.
Burk did not immediately release the names or ages of the people on the plane. The FAA said it and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.
CTEH, an environmental consulting firm based in North Little Rock, said the five people on board the plane — including the pilot — were its employees. A company spokesman said the employees were responding to an explosion at an Ohio metals plant this week that killed one worker and sent more than a dozen to the hospital.
Never go to a second location
Never get in a helicopter or any small aircraft
:brace-dark-cowboy:
Obey the rules.
Never drive a car built after 1995
Never travel in the same vehicle with all your comrades
That reminds me I still have to dig the cellular transceiver out of my car. Been meaning to do that for years.
Clearly the way forward is socialist motorcycle gangs on restored Soviet bikes.
I know logically small airplanes crash all the time, but tell that to the massive throbbing 👁I've got going rn
I dont know if I'd consider a King Air a small plane, my reasoning is that its over the weight threshold that requires a type rating. its big enough that you need a qualification from the FAA to be able to fly that specific model of airplane.
if you have the most basic multi engine private pilots license (private being the lowest license outside of one specifically made for old people who can't pass a FAA medical exam) you can legally fly any twin engine prop plane under 12,500 lbs without any training in that type of airplane, but a King Air weighs 12,500 lbs and requires its own license/type rating.
Still, twin engine flying really compounds your issues until you're up there in size imo.
They would need a commercial license instead of just a ppl too since the pilot was working for cteh right? That's nothing to scoff at I would think. I wonder how much can be gleaned from flight radar and tower chatter if that's available. Idk, I know helicopters better
100% the American air force mistook it for a weather balloon and shot it down.
The twin-engine plane crashed several miles south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport
:hillary:
Originally read this as “The twin-engine plane crashed several times south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.”
Always treat information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton like the Hope Diamond
The twin-engine plane crashed a couple of miles south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport
They can't keep getting away with it! :frothingfash:
i do not like the phenomenon of naming infrastructure after political leaders that existed in living memory, let alone those that are alive. i understand that US political leaders from yesteryear are a hard sell too, because chances are they were openly racist and/or slavers. but the naming of highways after the Clintons, Reagan, Trump, Bush, etc is like some kind of shit tier triumphalism, not to mention just fucking stupid looking.
like shut the fuck up. name stuff after geographic features nearby. or, god forbid, use an indigenous language.
i know we suck, as a people, at naming shit in the US. hell, there are like a dozen Londons here. but every day is a good day to start turning this shit around.
that's not how it works :cia: theres literally millions of them. environmental scientists spawn straight from the ground you have to bribe them or suppress their findings
Protip: If you want to live a long life don't fly in small aircraft.
