Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. After a relatively safe period for air travel, tonight, we are covering a tragedy in wichita, kansas, where a twinengine aircraft full of fuel went down on takeoff into a flight instruction building right there on the airport grounds. While the pilot was believed to have been killed instantly, the search all day and the rising death toll had to do with the people in the building where the explosion took place. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs ron mott. Ron, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. Officials say the pilot was believed to be the only person aboard that small airplane which lost power shortly after takeoff. They say the pilot then tried to turn back to the runway, culminating seconds later in a fiery crash. Thick clouds of black smoke billowed high into the sky, fueled by a raging fire, a harrowing scene this morning for those at wichitas midcontinent airport, moments after
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