Sightseeing Plane Crash Near Grand Canyon: 10 Dead, 11 Injured
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A sightseeing plane crashed near the Grand Canyon Airport, resulting in 10 fatalities and 11 injuries.
The plane's wings were sheared off by trees, but the fuselage remained intact, saving some passengers.
Passengers at the scene appeared shell-shocked and dazed.
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TUSAYAN,Ariz.,Sept.27 Sept 27 (NP)-A sight seeing plane crashed into a wooded hill near the Grand Canyon Airport on Wedensday,killing 10 people and injuring the other 11 people aboard.
The aicraft's wings were sheared off by tall Ponderosa pines but some passengers survived because the fuselage of the de Haviland Twin Otter remained largely intact,said Sheriff Joe Richards.The two crew members were killed,he said.
National Park Service Ranger Paul Crawford,how was among the first to reach the wreckage,said some of the passengers were walking around when he arrived at the scene on a small ridge about 275 meters east of a runway.
"They were shell shocked.They had that empty,dazed look,"he said.
The twin engine Grand Canyon Airlines plane went down at 9:49 a.m.,said U.S.Federal Aviation Adminis tration spokeswoman Elly Brekke.
Brekke said the plane hit trees,fipped over and crashed after veering on its landing approach.Elizabeth Sebold,co-owner of Grand Canyon Airlines,said from Las Vegas,New.,that the plane was on a sight seeing fight and was comin in for a landing.
Seibold said all those aboard were from the United States.
The identities of the dead and injured were not immediately available.
Larry Nickey,a Grand Canyon National Park Fire Department captain,said there was fuel in the plane's cockpit area but the wreck age did not catch fire.
Nickey said fire fightersvcut out the plane's bottom to free a man and a woman.He said they were the only two still alive in the plane when he arrived.
