AKRON, Ohio — Multiple sources tell WKYC that nine people were aboard the plane that crashed into an Akron home Tuesday afternoon.
A local officer on the scene and an aviation official say all nine people on the plane died in the crash.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirms that nobody on the 10-passenger plane survived the crash. Deputies, however, were unable to confirm how many people were on the plane.
“There is nothing I can say. We are looking into what happened,” said Augusto Lewkowicz, CEO of Execuflight, the company that owns the plane. “I will be up in Akron tomorrow – I am at a loss for words. It was a perfectly maintained aircraft.”
At 2:54 p.m., the plane crashed into a multi-family home located at 3042 Mogadore Road, near Skelton Road. WKYC
A special team is being brought in Wednesday to investigate the crash site. Authorities say the plane is mostly intact, but it is severely burnt.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office will implement a mass-fatality plan.
At 2:54 p.m., the plane crashed into a multi-family home located at 3042 Mogadore Road, near Skelton Road.
The plane most likely hit power lines before crashing into the home and hitting an embankment, according to deputies.
The debris from the crash caused the fire to spread to a nearby garage.
No one on the ground was injured and no one was inside the home at the time of the crash. The home was completely destroyed.
The plane, a Hawker H25 business jet, was approaching Akron Fulton International Airport when it crashed into the home, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Lunken Airport Director Fred Anderton told The Cincinnati Enquirer the flight departed from Lunken, in Cincinnati, at 11:06 a.m. Tuesday, en route to Dayton. The jet then crashed on a flight from Dayton to Akron, authorities said.
FAA investigators are at the scene. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive Tuesday evening.
Power lines brought down by the crash caused a power outage in the Tallmadge and Akron area to about 1,500 customers.
None of the victims have been identified at this time.