Kalispell, Mont. – A small plane landing on Monday at a Montana airport crashed on a parked plane, triggering a large fire but causing any serious injury, the authorities said.
The monomotor plane carrying four people tried to land around 2 p.m. at Kalispell City airport, according to Kalispell police chief Jordan Venezio and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Turbopropulse Socata TBM 700 plane had stuck an unoccupied ground on the ground. This caused a fire that spread in a grassy area before its extinguished, according to Venezio, which said that several planes were involved.
The small airport belonging to the city is just south of Kalispell, a town of around 30,000 people in northwest of Montana.
Witnesses said that a plane approached the South, landing at the end of the track and has transformed on another plane, said Kalispell firefighters Jay Hagen.
The plane trying to land broke out in flames, but the pilot and three passengers were able to go out alone after stopping, said Hagen.
Two passengers were slightly injured and treated at the airport, said Hagen. The plane was built in 2011 and belongs to Meter Sky LLC of Pullman, Washington, Faa Records, according to the records. The representatives of the company did not immediately respond to a telephone message asking for comments.
Aegage security consultant Jeff Guzzetti, who used to investigate the accidents of the FAA and NTSB, said that incidents where planes crash in parked planes occur several times a year in general aviation.
In a high -level incident in February, a Learjet belonging to the singer of Motley Crue Vince Neil turned a track in Scottsdale, Arizona, and crashed in a parked Gulfstream, killing a person. The NTSB said that the accident was perhaps linked to damage prior to the landing train, but the investigators did not determine the cause.
