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Six Killed in Small Plane Crash in Texas - FAA

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According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the incident occurred before 9 a.m. near Kerrville Municipal Airport.

Six people died when a twin-engine plane crashed in Texas on Monday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported.

As it was specified, a Beechcraft BE58 was getting ready to land at Kerrville Municipal Airport when the accident took place.

​The FAA also said that wreckage was found about six miles northwest of the airport. The flight had departed from West Houston Airport outside Houston.

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According to the FAA, its investigators are headed to the site and the National Transportation Safety Board will be in charge of the probe.

This is the second accident involving a small plane in Texas over the past two days. On Sunday two people died when a single-engine aircraft crashed at the Shirley Williams Airport in Kingsland.

 

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