Business Plane Crashes in N. Carolina; 2 Die
A business airplane crashed in a wooded field in this city Tuesday evening, killing the two people aboard and narrowly missing several homes, officials said.
The eight-seat Beech King Air twin-engine turboprop went down about a mile from Interstate 85 around 6:30 p.m., police Sgt. Vickie Saunders said.
The Holt Manufacturing Co. plane was en route from New York to Burlington Municipal Airport, officials said. An earlier report had said that the craft was a commuter plane.
Killed were Frank S. Holt Jr., 52, president and treasurer of the textile manufacturing company, and pilot Bill McBride of Greensboro, N.C., police Lt. Jim Fender said.
The plane went down in a field about 150 feet from a row of houses. The aircraft did not burn.
The flight apparently had gone smoothly, and the plane had been cleared to land when it suddenly crashed about 3 miles from the airport, officials said.
“I thought it was a glider or something because I didn’t hear any noise. The propellers were not turning,”said Greg Booker, 17, who lives in an apartment complex near the crash site.
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