4 Dead In Civilian Plane Crash At Fort Stewart
FAA: Plane Headed From Florida To South Carolina
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Four people died when a small civilian airplane crashed Friday evening on Fort Stewart in Liberty County.The plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, was en route from Titusville, Fla., to Anderson, S.C., said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta. The cause of the crash was unknown.Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said the plane went down a heavily wooded area about five miles north of the tiny town of Gum Branch. The area of the crash is near training area 36, near Highway 144, about 10 miles east of Pembroke."Four people were killed in the crash," said Larson, who confirmed the plane was a "civilian aircraft."Bergen said the plane crashed at about 6:30 p.m. Friday. Military police and firefighters responded to the crash and reported just after midnight finding four bodies among the wreckage.Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were heading to Fort Stewart to recover the wreckage and investigate the cause of the crash.The identities of those killed had not been released.
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