Investigators in Tennessee have confirmed five Canadians, including two adults and three children, are dead after the single-engine plane they were travelling in crashed near downtown Nashville Monday evening.The Associated PressInvestigators on Tuesday survey the wreck of a small plane that crashed along a stretch of highway near Nashville, Tenn., Monday evening, killing five Canadians on board.
He said the flight took off from Ontario, but did not have the specific location, and that all indications suggest the aircraft was bound for John C. Tune. They cleared runway two at the airport, and urged him to glide the plane down. But the plane had already descended to 488 metres by then, he said.That was the last they heard from the plane, which dropped off radar as it lost altitude.The plane crashed as Matthew Wiser was driving on the interstate, and he posted a photo of the fiery wreckage on social media.
Air traffic controllers then directed a local helicopter crew to survey the approach to the airport in search of the plane, while keeping other aircraft out of the emergency area.Debris from the small-plane crash alongside Interstate 40, in Nashville, Monday night. "We don't know if the aircraft had any history of problems," NTSB's McCarter said. "That's something that's got to be looked at later on."
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