A small jet crash killed five people on Wednesday. The small plane carrying seven people crashed off the runway after landing at a Georgia airport.
The Hawker Beechcraft 390/Premier I left from John Tune Airport in Nashville, Tenn. and crashed when it landed at the Thomson-McDuffie County Airport near Augusta, Georgia. Five of the seven people on board died when the plane crashed after 8 p.m. Their names have not been released.
Two others were seriously injured and were taken to area hospitals. They were the pilot and another passenger.
A woman who said she was Dr. Steven Rother's mother-in-law said her son-in-law was a vascular surgeon who was on the plane. She said her daughter was at a local hospital but they did not know Roth's condition, Savannah Now reports.
A woman who identified herself as Dr. Steven Roth's mother-in-law said late Wednesday that Roth - a vascular surgeon for Vein Guys - was on the plane and her daughter was at a local hospital but that the family did not know Roth's condition.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash and try to determine what caused it. The aircraft is registered to a company in Wilmington, Delaware. It is owned by the Vein Guys, a medical practice with clinics in several other Southeastern cities. The plane had made the flight between Georgia and Tennessee at least six times in the past month alone.
The crash sparked a brush fire near the scene and some residents noticed power outages. Police, fire fighters and utility workers were sent to the scene.
This wasn't the only small plane crash recently. Last week, three were killed when a Cessna 310 crashed near Vero Beach in Florida.
In January, a small Beechcraft BE35 aircraft crashed into a house in central Florida, about a mile from Flagler County Airport. All three people on board were also killed in the incident. There were no casualties in the home.
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