Lebanon Junction Fire Chief Josh Coleman told
The Pioneer News that emergency crews received numerous reports of a smoking plane flying low over Interstate 65 around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Coleman said reports put the crash somewhere between the 102- and 105-mile markers. The reports also said the plane went into the woods and that there was visible smoke.
There also was a report of a twin-engine plane landing at Addington Field in Elizabethtown with a smoking engine. Anne Lawson with Elizabethtown Flying Service, operators of the airport, said no such plane landed locally.
Stephen Thomas
Lebanon Junction Fire Chief Josh Coleman said there was an unsubstantiated report of a twin engine plane landing at Addington Field with a smoking engine. Lebanon Junction Fire Chief Josh Coleman said emergency crews received numerous reports of a smoking plane flying low over the Interstate 65 area around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Coleman said reports put the plane somewhere between the 102 and 105 mile markers. The reports also said the plane went into the woods and that there was visible smoke. A search began to locate a potential crash site, with crews from Lebanon Junction, Southeast Bullitt, Nichols, Shepherdsville, Zoneton, and Fairdale Fire Departments joining Bullitt County Emergency Management.