Left: Joe Neuzerling Right: Joshua DeBoer
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A plane crash on a Hamilton County golf course killed two students on Thursday.
Joshua Deboer, a senior in the College of Engineering, was the pilot and Joseph Neuzerling, a junior in the College of Engineering, was a passenger when the plane went down at 5:06 p.m. in Noblesville, Ind.
According to some media outlets, Deboer's father was present when the plane crashed.
The Purdue Tower reports the plane left at 4:30 p.m. The aircraft was not based at Purdue nor is a Purdue plane. The plane was registered to DB Aircraft LLC in Lynwood, Ill.
According to eye-witness reports to the Noblesville Police Department, the plane, a small two-seater sports craft, was seen flying at a low altitude and circled the golf course once or twice before crashing.
Noblesville Police Department Lt. Bruce Barnes said the Federal Aviation Administration was out on the golf course conducting a preliminary investigation Thursday evening.
FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board resumed its investigation of what caused the crash today at 9 a.m.
Noblesville Police Department will not be releasing the destination of where the students were heading due to the confidentiality the NTSB needs for its investigation.
Media outlets have reported that the two students were roommates and neither were part of Purdue's aviation program.
Deboer, 21, was from Chicago Heights, Ill., and Neuzerling, 21, was from Noblesville, Ind.
Jeanne Norberg, the University spokeswoman, offered a comment on behalf of the University of the two student's death.
"This is a tragic loss for not only their family and friends, but for everyone in the Purdue community," she said. "Both these young men had bright futures."
The Exponent will follow this story as it develops.
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A plane crash on a Hamilton County golf course killed two students on Thursday.
Joshua Deboer, a senior in the College of Engineering, was the pilot and Joseph Neuzerling, a junior in the College of Engineering, was a passenger when the plane went down at 5:06 p.m. in Noblesville, Ind.
According to some media outlets, Deboer's father was present when the plane crashed.
The Purdue Tower reports the plane left at 4:30 p.m. The aircraft was not based at Purdue nor is a Purdue plane. The plane was registered to DB Aircraft LLC in Lynwood, Ill.
According to eye-witness reports to the Noblesville Police Department, the plane, a small two-seater sports craft, was seen flying at a low altitude and circled the golf course once or twice before crashing.
Noblesville Police Department Lt. Bruce Barnes said the Federal Aviation Administration was out on the golf course conducting a preliminary investigation Thursday evening.
FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board resumed its investigation of what caused the crash today at 9 a.m.
Noblesville Police Department will not be releasing the destination of where the students were heading due to the confidentiality the NTSB needs for its investigation.
Media outlets have reported that the two students were roommates and neither were part of Purdue's aviation program.
Deboer, 21, was from Chicago Heights, Ill., and Neuzerling, 21, was from Noblesville, Ind.
Jeanne Norberg, the University spokeswoman, offered a comment on behalf of the University of the two student's death.
"This is a tragic loss for not only their family and friends, but for everyone in the Purdue community," she said. "Both these young men had bright futures."
The Exponent will follow this story as it develops.
http://www.purdueexponent.org
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Two 21-year-old men who died Thursday afternoon when a plane crashed in a Noblesville golf course were Purdue University students.
Joseph Neuzerling, 21, of Noblesville, and pilot Joshua DeBoer, 21, of Chicago Heights, Ill., were killed when the plane came down on the third hole of the Harbor Trees golf course near Roxbury Lane and Oxford Drive just after 5 p.m.
Both men were mechanical engineering students who lived off campus and may have been roommates, said Jeanne Norberg, Purdue spokeswoman.
"This is a tragic loss for not only their family and friends, but for everyone in the Purdue community," Norberg said. "Both these young men had bright futures."
Noblesville fire crews and state police inspected the scene, cooperating with National Transportation Safety Board officials to determine what went wrong.
Bruce Barnes with the Noblesville Police Department said witnesses could help them with their investigation.
"(Witnesses) observed something that they said was a bit out of the ordinary in terms of flight path of an airplane. In terms of the plane's elevation, that information is critical," Barnes said.
John Clayton witnessed the crash and called authorities for help, 6News' Ericka Flye reported.
"All of a sudden the (plane's) left wing just dropped. I never did see (it) come up from the tree line," Clayton said.
FAA officials said the plane was registered to DB Aircraft of Lynwood, Ill.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A small plane that crashed into a suburban Indianapolis golf course was flying normally on a clear day just before witnesses say it suddenly spiraled into the ground, killing the Chicago Heights man who was piloting it and his passenger.
The single-engine plane crashed into the Harbour Trees Golf Club, which winds through a neighborhood along Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, early Thursday evening. The plane smashed to a halt in a sand trap next to a putting green, leaving scorch marks on the nearby fairway.
Federal aviation investigators would return to the golf course Friday to try to determine the cause of the crash, Noblesville police Lt. Bruce Barnes said.
The crash killed pilot Joshua DeBoer, 21, of Chicago Heights, and passenger Joseph Neuzerling, 21, of Noblesville, according to police.
Nearby resident Eric Smith said he was the first person to reach the plane after it circled above the golf course near his home and then “corkscrewed” into the ground.
He said the crash sounded “like a gunshot — one thump, then done.”
Smith said he pulled away a wing that was lying on top of one of the occupants, but that the man had no pulse. Only when emergency personnel arrived did he realize there was a second man in the plane.
Another witness said nothing appeared wrong until just before the crash.
“All of a sudden the left wing just dropped,” John Clayton told WRTV. “I never did see it come up from the tree line.”
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