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.