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FAA: 17 die in Montana plane crash
The accident involves a single-engine turboprop with children aboard

BUTTE, Mont. - A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says 17 people are dead after a plane crashed while approaching the airport in Butte.

Spokesman Mike Fergus says the single engine turboprop plane departed from Orville, Calif., at about 11 a.m. Pacific time. The pilot had filed a flight plan showing a final destination of Bozeman.

Fergus says the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte. The plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport while attempting to land and caught fire.
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Fergus says there are no known fatalities on the ground. He says preliminary reports indicate the dead include numerous children.

Fergus says the plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Oregon, but he doesn't know who was operating the plane.

Calls to local authorities were not immediately returned.

The Montana Standard reported on its Web site that the plane crashed in the Holy Cross Cemetery, just south of the airport. An eyewitness told the Standard that the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.

"All of a sudden the pilot lost control and went into a nosedive," Kenny Gulick, 14, told the news organization. "He couldn't pull out in time and crashed into the trees of the cemetery," Gulick said.

Aww man, that's awful! That really makes me afraid to fly anywhere.

I just seen this this morning on the news. Its terrible knowing that not only adults but 7 children aboard were killed when the plane went down. The news reporter was saying that the plane is only able to hold 12 so that means that most of the children were on laps of the adults.
Now they are showing on the news about a fedex plane that exploded on a runway carrying flammable liquids and killing the two pilots.

God, that is terrible. To Morwenna, who's seen too much tragedy in her home state:

About the FedEx plane, though: how did someone get it on tape?? I kept wondering that while I was watching CNN this morning.

I have thoses same wondering thoughts about a lot of the accidents that are shown on the news. There has to be people around with cameras at the ready. There could be security cameras on all around the airports including the landing strips.


It's rather odd how many aircraft crashes there've been recently. Most of theses haven't been commercial airlines though, so no frets Vampira. You know have us all thinking of you.