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Eleven skydivers and one pilot have been killed in a plane crash in the US state of Missouri, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The airplane, which was leased by a skydiving company, took off around 11:20 local time on Sunday, according to a Bates County Emergency Management spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After failing to gain altitude, it made a sharp left turn and crashed about 200 yards away from Butler Memorial Airport, the spokesperson told the BBC. All 12 people on board died, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are treating that … as a mass casualty,” Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said during an afternoon news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sheriff said the plane was not a commercial airliner, and rather “a local airplane that took off from our local airport.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the plane was a Pacific Aerospace P750 and crashed while departing the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Air traffic services were not being provided at the time,” the FAA said. A spokesperson explained that the plane was not required to be in communication due to the type of air space it was flying in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local media reported that first responders checked the area to see if any of the skydivers had jumped from the plane before the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some family members of the deceased witnessed the incident, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities have not shared information on the identities of the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The city of Butler is about 50 miles south of the Kansas City metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is leading the investigation into the crash, the FAA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: Eleven skydivers and one pilot have been killed in a plane crash in the US state of Missouri, officials said. The airplane, which was leased by a skydiving company, took off around 11:20 local time on Sunday, according to a Bates County Emergency Management spokesperson. After failing to gain altitude, it made a sharp left turn and crashed about 200 yards away from Butler Memorial Airport, the spokesperson told the BBC. All 12 people on board died, he said. “We are treating that … as a mass casualty,” Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said during an afternoon news conference…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58637,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58635\/revisions\/58637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}