Six people were killed Friday when a small plane crashed into the front yard of a home while attempting to land in fog and low visibility in Mount Airy, North Carolina, authorities said.
The crash occurred about 11:30 a.m., according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The plane was coming from Polk County Airport in Cedartown, Georgia, and was attempting to land in overcast conditions, with visibility of about 2 ½ miles, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.
After air traffic controllers cleared the plane to land, the airport manager saw it come out of the clouds, but it was too high, Brown said. The pilot attempted a "go-around" and disappeared into the clouds, but the airport manager then heard a crash. The crash site was in a subdivision east of the airport.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/01/nc.plane.crash/index.html
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