WSET β A flight from the Lynchburg airport was short-lived after crashing on a North Carolina Highway, but officials said no one was injured despite the disaster. According to FlightAware , the small single-piston plane left the Lynchburg Regional Airport just after 3 p.
The scheduled flight path would have sent the aircraft to Ocean Isle Beach, but the airplane literally fell short, instead crash-landing on a highway in Chatham County, North Carolina.
The Moncure Fire Department, which responded to the incident, said they were having a busy day even before the crash. Maddox said the plane's pilot told their department that a piece of the propeller had fallen off and that caused the engine to fail.
Maddox said this crash hit two cars on the highway and no one was injured. The photos shared by the fire department show the small white and blue plane sitting on the side of the highway. One of the propellers is shown snapped in half. Those are airplanes that could be privately owned airplanes that come and go through Lynchburg airport as needed," Simon said. These private flights fly out of another part of the Lynchburg Airport. If you own a small aircraft, for general aviation, you normally go to the opposite side of the airfield.
We have a fixed base operator on the field," Simon said. Scott Horner, an airplane mechanic at Lynchburg Airport, said this type of aircraft could have been more likely to malfunction. But, it has less regulations than most aircraft have, being an experimental aircraft," Horner said. It did look like it had an engine failure," Horner said. The pilot was the only person on board. The FAA will investigate. Tue, 25 Feb GMT Story Infinite Scroll - News3 v1. Weather Cameras. Game Center.
