ANDERSON, Ind. (KCRG/Gray News) – A plane crash is under investigation after it went down Friday morning in Indiana and killed everyone on board.
Officials said a single-engine plane traveling from Iowa to Indiana was bound for the Anderson Municipal Airport when it crashed in a cornfield about a mile away from the airport.
Investigators say the plane flew into the airport too high and was circling around again before it went down.
“They were too high. They were told to reroute and make another approach,” Capt. Darwin Dwiggins of the Madison County Sheriff’s Office told The Associated Press.
According to Dwiggins, witnesses said it appeared the pilot may have been trying to turn back toward the airport shortly before the crash.
Dwiggins said a witness described the plane as “flipping over and just nosediving” into the cornfield before the aircraft burst into flames.
The Federal Aviation Administration said a preliminary report showed that four people were on board the Piper PA-46.
Dwiggins said there were “no survivors.”
The identities of those who died have not yet been released.
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