Four Die in Small Plane Crash in Northern New Mexico
Posted/updated on: March 5, 2013 at 2:22 am
ANGEL FIRE, N.M. (AP/Staff) — A plane owned by a company in Scottsville, Texas, in Harrison County, has crashed in the northern New Mexico community of Angel Fire. Four persons died after the single-engine plane crashed as it was taking off.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the cause of the crash was unknown, but noted that the area was experiencing heavy winds at the time of the crash Sunday afternoon. The plane’s destination wasn’t immediately known.
No information was available about the two adults and two children aboard the single-engine Mooney plane, except that they were members of a San Antonio family. State police say there were no survivors in the crash. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and FAA headed to the site.
Angel Fire is located 150 miles northeast of Albuquerque.
