By Itoro Umontuen | on October 10, 2021
By The Associated Press
Emergency Response teams enactment the country of a fatal tiny level clang astatine DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, successful DeKalb County, Ga. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — A tiny level crashed conscionable aft takeoff Friday day from a suburban airdrome successful a northeast suburb of Atlanta, sidesplitting each 4 radical aboard, authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the single-engine Cessna 210 crashed astir 1:10 p.m. astatine DeKalb-Peachtree Airport and caught fire. All 4 radical connected committee died, a region occurrence spokesperson said.
At slightest 15 firefighters stationed astatine the county-owned airdrome raced onto the runway and enactment retired the flames comparatively quickly, according to the region occurrence official, Capt. Jaeson Daniels, speaking with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officials did not instantly merchandise the identities of those killed.
The airdrome is acceptable connected much than 700 acres (280 hectares) little than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. With an mean of astir 209,000 yearly takeoffs and landings implicit the past 3 decades, it is the state’s second-busiest airdrome down lone Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, according to its website.
The FAA said the National Transportation Safety Board would beryllium starring the investigation.
There was nary contiguous denotation of what whitethorn person caused the crash.
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