A small plane crashed into a home in Mississippi, killing one of the home’s four people and three Texas residents who were flying to a university graduation ceremony, according to the officials.
A National Transportation Safety Board investigator was on the way to Hattiesburg, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southeast of the Mississippi capital of Jackson, to investigate Tuesday’s plane crash, which resulted in a fire, the agency said.
Officials weren’t aware of any distress calls from the Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 but have yet to see the air traffic recordings, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said. He confirmed an investigator was being sent to the scene.
Police and the coroner’s office provided identities of the dead ones as Gerry Standley, 55, of Hattiesburg; and two adults and a toddler from Wichita Falls, Texas: Louis Provenza, 67; Anna Calhoun, 23; and Harper Provenza, 2.
