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Plane lands on a road, hits a light pole, crashes and catches fire: two dead



An aircraft made an emergency landing on a Texas road but something went wrong and crashed to the ground. The two occupants died

Two people died in one disastrous plane crash which involved a small aircraft, which crashed not far from Dallas. According to local media reports, the plane from Denton had landed at Grand Praire Municipal Airport to then take off again, and a few minutes before the accident, from the municipal airport of the city and was trying to make an emergency landing, due to a probable failure detected by the pilot. But something went wrong and just before 3pm it crashed along a service road in Grand Prairie, the local fire station confirmed in a statement. Witnesses said they saw the plane hit a telephone pole and then hit the road and an SUV several times before stopping in a restaurant parking lot, as confirmed by Robert Fire. Chief of the Grand Prairie Fire Department. The crash occurred near the intersection of Mayfield Road and Highway 360 and the two occupants of the aircraft died while the person who was on the pick up, who was traveling right on the service road on which the aircraft ended, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

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Plane charred by flames after crash

In fact shortly after the crash the plane was engulfed in flames, extinguished a few minutes later by the fire brigade. The identity of the victims has not been made known at the moment: in the meantime an investigation has been launched to try to clarify the causes of the accident and understand why the pilot decided, a few minutes after take-off, to make a landing of emergency. Images disseminated by the media or witnesses show the plane almost entirely charred except the back.

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