Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Piper PA-28-180, N4824L: DNA to identify victims in Clinton County plane crash.








OSBORN, Mo. (AP) - Authorities are awaiting autopsy results before releasing the names of two men killed in a northwest Missouri plane crash.

Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Sheldon Lyon says DNA was being collected Wednesday on the victims of Tuesday's crash in a rural area near Osborn, about 45 miles northeast of Kansas City. It will take the patrol's crime lab in Jefferson City 24 to 48 hours to make a positive identification.

The crashed plane was a 1967 single-engine Piper Cherokee. There were no survivors.

The Highway Patrol says people in a nearby home knew at least one person on the low-flying plane and waved as it flew by. The plane went down about 200 yards from the house. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The crash was reported before 5 p.m. near 33 Highway, south of Southwest Rogers Road.

It happened near a farm in Osborn used by Shatto Milk Company.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to 41 Action News that two people were inside the plane at the time of the crash and both were killed in the plane.

The plane is registered in Independence, Mo.

Authorities have not yet released the identities of the victims.

The FAA will investigate the incident and the National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation.

Two killed as small plane crashes in Clinton County

A small plane crashed in a northern Clinton County pasture this afternoon, killing two men, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

The plane, a 1967 Piper Cherokee, crashed upside down in an open field and burned. The crash site is just north of the Shatto Dairy on U.S. 33, about eight miles west of the Cameron Airport.

The Missouri Highway Patrol and the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department were working Tuesday night to identify the men.

The FAA will begin its investigation Wednesday morning.

Patrol Sgt. Sheldon Lyon said a resident in a house adjacent to the pasture reported the crash at 4:22 p.m.

Witnesses reported seeing the plane traveling low and in circles in the area before the crash.

Lyon said the residents of the house knew at least one of the plane’s occupants. The family was outside to wave as the plane flew by. They saw the plane crash about 200 yards north of the house.

Authorities were unsure where the plane took off from or where it was headed.

The bodies will be brought to Kansas City on Wednesday for autopsy.

CLINTON COUNTY, MO (KCTV) -   A  plane crashed near Plattsburg in Clinton County, MO, and two men have died in the crash.

Two men were flying over a friend's house when their plane went down on Missouri Highway 33.

An employee at Shatto Milk Company, located at 9406 North Hwy. 33 in Osborn, MO, said the crash happened just north of their property.

Liz Cory, a spokesperson for the FAA, said there are two reported fatalities. The FAA is not on the scene at this time, but Cory said local search and rescue with the Missouri Highway Patrol will continue to handle the investigation. They said the local coroner's office will handle identifying the victims.

The plane was a 1967 Piper PA model.

The FAA will be at the scene Wednesday morning and they, along with the National Transportation Safety Board, will handle all further investigations, which could take several months.


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