Eight people were killed, four each in two separate plane crashes, this weekend in Arizona and Arkansas.
In the first fatal accident, a small plane hit an empty high school building in Eagar, Ariz., last Friday. The single engine Piper was going to the Grand Canyon and had just taken off from the Springville, Ariz., airport.
Authorities found the bodies of four people in the crash wreckage, and they were taken to the Apache County medical examiner’s office.
The plane had circled above Eagar several times before suddenly nosediving into the Round Valley High School at about 2 p.m. The school was empty because classes are over for the summer.
The second plane crash took place Sunday morning near Umpire, Ark., which is in the southwest part of the state and roughly 90 miles from Texarkana.
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A single-engine plane carrying four people had taken off from DeQueen and was on its way to an airport in north Arkansas or southern Missouri. It crashed in a remote part of the Howard County Wildlife Management Area at about 9:30 a.m.