A pilot was killed, but his passenger survived, a plane crash just a half-mile from Scottsdale Airport in Arizona Thursday morning, according to The Arizona Republic.
The Cirrus SR22 was about to land when it went down in a residential area, on Joan De Arc Avenue not far from 70th Street at 10 a.m., The Republic reported. Authorities haven’t revealed the names of the two men who were on the single-engine plane.
But the pilot was a 62-year-old man, and he was found dead inside the aircraft. His 60-year-old passenger, miraculously, was taken to a trauma center but apparently didn’t have life-threatening wounds from the accident, according to The Republic.
The paper reported that the aircraft was registered to Frank M. Smith and Associates of Pinetop, Ariz., and was enroute from Show Low to Scottsdale.
The accident is being probed by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Residents of Scottsdale and Phoenix who live near the airport used the crash to once again voice their concern about planes landing and taking off there, Th Republic reported. Last year the airport agreed to allow jets take off with as much as 100,000 pounds of fuel, compared to a previous limit of 75,000 pounds.