Five Arkansas environmental employees trying to respond to a deadly Ohio metal plants explosion were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, officials said.
Five Arkansas environmental employees heading to a deadly Ohio metal plant explosion were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, officials said.
The twin-engine plane crashed several miles south of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, where it had departed from around noon, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Post.All five on board were killed in the wreck. The identities of the victims have not yet been released. But CTEH, a local environmental consulting firm, said the passengers and pilot were all employees making a 730-mile trip to Columbus, Ohio.
The group was responding to the Tuesday explosion at the I. Schumann & Co. copper alloy company in the Cleveland suburbs that killed one veteran worker and sent more than a dozen people, including at least two in critical condition, to area hospitals.
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