Texas Plane Crash Kills 5
A small plane with five people aboard, including two children, has crashed in central Texas. There were no survivors.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS) said the fatalities were a 13-year-old girl, a 2-year-old boy, two women and the male pilot. All passengers were from Atlanta while the pilot was from Texas. The dead victims' names are still being withheld pending notification of their families.
The Piper Saratoga took off from an airfield in Atlanta, Georgia and was heading to Waco, Texas when it crashed in a farming and ranching community in Brazos County at 10 p.m. on Monday, TDPS said, according to the Houston Chronicle. Before the crash, the plane made a stopover in Jackson, Mississippi.
Police are speculating that bad weather caused the crash of the single-engine plane. An investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the accident.