As I said, "If so..."
The state police, however, believe that the crash WAS intentional.
Pilot, daughter die in crash
By DIANA WIRES,
dwires@tmnews.com BEDFORD — Police said this evening that the fatal plane crash at Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport was intentional.
The preliminary investigation indicates the crash was deliberate, said Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten.
Killed in this morning's crash were Eric Johnson, 47, of Bedford, and his daughter Emily Johnson, 8. Their deaths were confirmed by Lawrence County Coroner John Sherrill, who said they died from multiple blunt-force trauma suffered in the crash.
The plane slammed into into the home of Vivian Pace, Johnson’s former mother in-law.
"The reason the investigation has taken this direction," Bursten said in a prepared statement, "is based on information provided by witnesses of the crash, the direction the aircraft was traveling in relation to the airport and the fact the plane crashed into the home of Eric Johnson's former mother-in-law."
The formal cause will not be determined until the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation, which could take months.
http://www.tmnews.com/
March 5, 2007, 6:13PM
Pilot crashes into in-laws' house
The Associated Press
BEDFORD, Ind. — A pilot and his 8-year-old daughter were killed Monday when their small plane crashed into an in-laws' house near a southern Indiana airport, authorities said.
Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said a preliminary crash investigation leads "us to believe that this was an intentional act."
The crash killed Eric Johnson, 47, of Connersville, and his daughter Emily, he said. The plane crashed into the residence of one of Johnson's in-laws, Vivian Pace, Bursten said.
Authorities will not know for sure until the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation, which could take up to a year, Bursten said.
Earlier, Pace told The Times-Mail newspaper that she was in the living room of her one-story home when the plane struck the side of the building. She said everything fell off the walls.
She said she had heard a plane making a "horrible noise" before the crash.
The 11 a.m. crash happened near Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport, about 20 miles south of Bloomington and where the plane had been leased, state police Cpl. Eric Dunn said.
Witnesses said the plane appeared to be trying to land when it veered sharply and went out of sight, The Times-Mail reported on its Web site.
There were no reports of injuries on the ground, though the impact left much of the plane lodged inside the house.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4604267.html