Ten People Killed in TX Plane Crash
By John Martin and Kavitha Surana
Source Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Ten people aboard a flight bound for St. Petersburg died Sunday when the private plane crashed into a hangar at an airport just north of Dallas, Tex.
Authorities said there were no survivors.
Edward Martelle, a spokesman for the town of Addison, TX, told CNN that a private plane was leaving the airport and veered into the hangar before bursting into flames Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. local time.
According to Flight Aware, an online flight tracking service, a Beechcraft BE-350 King Air with the tail number N534FF was scheduled to depart from the Addison airport at 9:21 this morning, with a scheduled arrival at Albert Whitted Airport at 1:18 p.m.
The identities of the victims had not been released by Sunday evening.
On Twitter, the National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate the accident. A statement from the Federal Aviation Administration said the agency was also heading to Addison to investigate.
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