The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 20, 2004, Page 5, Image 5
Plane crashes in downtown Atlanta, kills 2
■ Aircraft clips
auto-body shop, kills
both people on board
By KRISTEN WYATT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — A small plane clipped
an auto-body shop and crashed and
burned in a parking lot Tuesday near the
birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.,
killing both people aboard.
No one on the ground was hurt.
The twin-engine Beechcraft had
taken off from the nearby DeKalb
Peachtree Airport and was headed to
Venice, Fla., in a rainstorm when it went
into a nosedive.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
identified the victims as pilot John
Ingram, 71, and his wife, 67-year-old
Rae Ingram, of Nokomis, Fla., a town
near Venice.
National Transportation Safety Board
investigator Eric Alleyne said the plane
sent out a distress signal, but he did not
know what caused it to spin out of
control.
It was tumbling straight down, said
Malcolm Okosun, who was working on a
construction project a block from the
crash site downtown.
The aircraft’s wing clipped the auto
body shop as it went down, and the plane
crashed in the business’ parking lot. Only
a few people were in the building and
none needed medical attention, said Fire
Department spokeswoman Sandra
Walker.
A rainstorm was moving through at
the time.
“It looked like there was some pretty
heavy wind,” said Chris Spanovic, who
watched the plane go down from two
blocks away.
The crash happened in the city’s
historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood,
where King grew up and later preached
at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
The church is a few blocks from the
crash site. King’s birthplace is about 40
yards away.
The neighborhood, which calls itself
the cradle of the civil rights movement,
includes old warehouses that have been
converted into apartments and
businesses.
An Atlanta
firefighter
walks with
a tarp
through the
wreckage
of a small
plan that
crashed in
Atlanta
Tuesday,
the plane
wiith two
people
aboard
crashed
during a
rainstorm
into an
auto-body
shop..
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