Pilot and co-pilot die in cargo plane crash in Alabama
ByThe Courier Reporter
Investigators search through the debris.
A cargo plane has crashed in an open field on approach to an airport in Alabama, killing the two crew members aboard.
The pilot and co-pilot of the UPS Airbus A300 were pronounced dead at the scene near Birmingham.
Mayor William Bell said: “The plane is in several sections. There were two to three small explosions but we think that was related to the aviation fuel.”
Sharon Wilson, who lives near the airport, was in bed when the plane went over her house at what sounded like treetop level.
The engines were making an odd sound like sputtering, she said, as if the plane “had run out of fuel”.
The plane came down away from buildings and the crash did not affect operations at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
Pilot and co-pilot die in cargo plane crash in Alabama
