Planes Collide, Killing 5 Aboard
Fiery debris rained down on a suburban neighborhood Saturday after a private jet and a single-engine plane collided, killing at least five people.
Both pilots and three passengers on the jet were killed, said Preston Hicks, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman.
Although the jet’s flight plan showed five people aboard, one never boarded the plane, Cobb County police spokesman Robert Quigley said. The smaller plane did not file a flight plan.
Crews were searching for additional victims but were hampered by wreckage and leaking jet fuel.
The identities of the pilots and passengers were not released. Quigley said the jet’s pilot and three passengers were co-workers from the Atlanta area, but he would not say where they were employed.
The jet had just taken off from Peachtree-DeKalb County Airport near Atlanta en route to Harrisburg, Pa., when it collided with the smaller plane at 3,000 to 4,000 feet, Hicks said.
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