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A plane crash earlier tonight killed one man and injured another. Officials said it crashed into a residential yard in Granite Shoals, Texas Department of Public Safety reported.
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A plane crash earlier tonight killed one man and injured another. Officials said it crashed into a residential yard in Granite Shoals, Texas Department of Public Safety reported.
Pilot Frank Rollin Enbody of Horseshoe Bay died in the crash, a Public Safety officer said, and 19-year-old Joshua Brandon Araiza of Granite Shoals was airlifted to University Medical Center Brackenridge with incapacitating injuries.
Araiza was in good condition, a Brackenridge spokeswoman said just before 10 p.m.
Enbody, 76, was flying out of the Sunrise Beach Airport and headed east. A preliminary investigation determined that the engine on the plane - an Experimental craft built from a kit - stopped, the Public Safety officer said. Witnesses said they heard the engine on the craft sputter and die, the officer said. Enbody was attempting to return to the airport, when at 6:32 p.m. he crashed into the yard of a home in the 200 block of Shorewood Drive in Granite Shoals, the officer said. He died at the scene.
Source: http://www.statesman.com
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Saturday night's flight on a single-engine plane was Joshua Araiza's first flight on an airplane, a short trip that ended in a crash in Granite Shoals that left the pilot dead.
The crash, aboard a small home-made plane around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, left the 76-year-old pilot Frank Enbody dead. His passenger was Araiza, 19, a friend of his grandson. Araiza, who was taken to UMC Brackenridge, suffered minor injuries but is expected to make a full recovery.
Witnesses reported hearing the engine make sputtering sounds before the plane went down. The plane, a CAB GY 201 Minicab, came down in between two houses and landed in a tree. Witnesses praised Enbody's skills as a pilot, saying he had avoided heavily residential areas.
The CAB GY 201 Minicab is a experimental plane built from a kit, based on the designs of planes just after World War II. According to FAA records, Enbody built the plane back in 1994.
NTSB and FAA were at the crash site on Sunday morning to investigate the accident. Araiza was expected to be released from Brackenridge on Sunday afternoon.
Frank Rollin Enbody of Horseshoe Bay has been confirmed as the pilot killed in the crash of an experimental plane in Granite Shoals about 6:20 p.m.Saturday, Granite Shoals Police Capt. Clint Low said.
Chief J.P. Wilson said the crash occurred north of Bluebriar Park on the shores of Lake LBJ. A reporter on the scene said the plane crashed into a fence near a house on Shorewood Drive.
Wilson said the male passenger on the plane, identified as Joshua Brandon Araiza, sustained serious injuries and was taken by airlift to UMC-Brackenridge in Austin.
Low said the pilot had flown from Sunrise Beach airport. FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were on the scene Sunday morning.
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