By Hollie Silverman and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Updated 3:01 PM ET, Sat February 27, 2021 Debris from an airplane crash that killed three people near Gainesville, Georgia, on Friday, February 26. (CNN)Three people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County Fire Service responded to the crash around 6 p.m. and found the three adult victims, Hall County Fire Service Division Chief Zach Brackett told CNN in an email.