Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #69406
From: Dennis Ramsey <doramsey@gmail.com>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: IV-P down
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:35:44 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
Neighbors told me of the following accident.   Although they are apparently fellow South Carolinians, I do not know any of the deceased.   But three families are unfortunately mourning today. 


DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -

The Darlington County Sheriff's office confirmed a small plane crashed Saturday evening right in the front yard of someone's home.

Captain Andy Locklair says it happened near Forest Drive and Fox Hollow Drive outside of the city of Hartsville but near the Hartsville airport.

Darlington County Sheriff Wayne Byrd says three people were on the plane. Darlington County Coroner Todd Hardee says the victims were all men and were not related.

He identifies the victims as George Thomas Rogers, 61, of Society Hill, Joseph Melton Loflin, III, 29, of Pelzer, and Leslie R. Bradshaw, 75, of Hartsville.

The men will undergo autopsies in Newberry Monday.

The call came in at 6:55 p.m. and Hartsville fire chief says the homes surrounding the crash site were not damaged. The plane was badly burned and some of the woods caught fire.

A man who worked for the pilot told News13 the plane left Darlington County Jetport.  He said the plane stalled and the wing went down and it's not the first time it's had issues.

The airport was a Lancair IV-P aircraft according to Kathleen Bergen, Manager for Atlantic Media Relations with the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA and the NTSB will investigate, and the NTSB will determine probable cause.

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