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Mont. Plane Crash Kills 17, Including Kids
March 22, 2009BUTTE, Mont. -- The Federal Aviation Administration said a small plane crashed as it approached an airport in Montana Sunday, killing 17 people, including several children.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the single-engine turboprop plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport in Butte while attempting to land.
He said the aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had filed a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman, Mont. But the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte.
Fergus added that it was probably a ski trip for kids.
Fergus said the plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Ore., but he doesn't know who was operating the plane.
Calls to local authorities were not immediately returned.
The incident was the country's third major plane crash this year. All 155 people onboard survived after a US Airways jetliner landed in New York's Hudson River in January when a flock of geese disabled both engines.
And a commuter plane fell on a house in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 passengers and a man in the home in February.
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