Two small planes collide over central Louisiana
October 11th, 2009 - 4:46 am ICT by BNO NewsPINEVILLE, LOUISIANA (BNO NEWS) — Two people were killed and several others were injured when two small aircraft collided over Buhlow Lake in central Louisiana on Saturday afternoon, officials told BNO News.
The crash happened near Pineville Municipal Airport in Pineville around 2.30 p.m. central time, according to Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “It happened roughly a half mile off the runway,” Lunsford said, who said the planes came down in woods nearby.
A total of four people were on board the planes when they went down, two of them, both on the same plane, were killed in the crash. The two people on board the second aircraft were airlifted to a local hospital with serious injuries.
One of the planes was a 1965-build Cessna 150F aircraft, which was registered to Thomas Oleary from Deville, Louisiana, according to official FAA records. The second plane, also a Cessna 150F but build in 1966, was registered to Lawrence L. Newell from Marksville, Louisiana. It was not immediately confirmed those people were actually onboard the aircraft when they crashed.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
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