West Palm Beach, FL, United States (AHN) – A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from West Palm Beach International airport. Three people were killed and one injured in the Thursday evening accident.
A representative of the Federal Aviation Administration said the twin engine Piper PA-44 crashed at 6:10 p.m. shortly after it took off from runway 10. Flight records show it had arrived from the Bahamas and was scheduled to depart for Melbourne.
The Piper Seminole aircraft built in 2008 was registered to FIT Aviation, a Melbourne-based flight school affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology.
School officials said two of the people on the plane were students and one was an instructor. A fourth person on board the downed plane was airlifted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in critical condition.
It remains unclear at this time if it was a training flight.
Neither the pilot nor the passengers have been identified pending notification of relatives.
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November 13th, 2010
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