Three people die in small plane crash flying from Ontario to Prince Edward Island
A Maine airport manager says three people have died after a small plane that departed from Ontario bound for Prince Edward Island crashed during an attempted landing.
Jesse Crandall says witnesses saw the airplane pass over Greenville Municipal Airport before crashing in a field on the approach to the runway on Monday morning.
“They turned around over the airport and were coming back, banked sharply … and they hit the ground real hard,” he said in a telephone interview.
He says he drove quickly to the airport minutes later but first responders on the scene told him there were no survivors in the mangled twin-engine propeller Aerostar AEST aircraft.