The Johnson County Executive Airport is closed after a plane crash Sunday afternoon. Around 1 p.m., the pilot of a Cessna 182 was approaching Runway 18, according to a county spokesperson.
story from florida. what do we know about the plane that crashed? reporter: hey, david. we don t know officially the cause, but there was bad weather that morning. the plane went down in a popular tourist area. witnesses reported seeing the plane flip mid-air and then crash into a mountain. it burst into flames. this was also a couple hundred yards from the end of the runway. there were 12 people on board. two pilots, ten americans, all 12 people died. five of those people were from the same family in scarsdale, new york. a tight-knit family. this is what a neighbor had to say about that family. inconceivable that a whole family should meet with such a disaster. they were a lovely family. obviously, family and friends are meeting with investigators
range to glide quite some distance. it had the ability to glide depending on altitude. assuming you have someone in control of the airport a. in theory you could or would try to set it down on the water. the miracle on the hudson is the perfect example. that was done with an air bus 320, a much smaller aircraft. this is considered to be a jumbo jet. here are alerts you re trying to get. the plane is trying to tell you, if you re this low, why don t you have the landing gear down. the reason is it would make the plane flip. you want to land on the belly, flat surface. you see how the sea state would be crucial. if it s really rough, is there any way to land on that? if you had to, you had to. you would have to compensate and
top but it didn t. it landed with the belly down. so again, you actually saw the nose of the plane go into the dirt? yeah, it is like the plane was doing a flip flop or a somersault. the nose was down, tail up in the air. i mean it was bad. i knew something was wrong. i mean people were going to be injured. it was really a traumati traumc event. did the plane flip? did you see the plane actually flip? or you saw it come back down on its belly? i thought it flipped. when i saw the tail go down in the air, the nose go down and when the plane came to a rest i couldn t tell which side landed 77. landed up. it was only after the plane settled and dust had gone away i could see the exits, with the ramps coming off the side where people were coming out.