9 on plane that crashed into OH building confirmed dead

“Weather, in fact, is one of the key areas that we’ll be looking at very carefully in this accident”, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

AKRON, OH — Authorities confirmed Wednesday that nine people were killed when a small business jet crashed into an apartment building, and seven of them were employees or executives in a Florida real-estate company.

With no survivors and no sign of a distress call from the plane that slammed into an Akron apartment house, investigators are searching elsewhere for clues about what caused the fiery crash.

On Tuesday morning, the plane was flown to Dayton before heading toward Akron Fulton global Airport.

The Florida real estate company that lost seven employees in a corporate jet crash in Akron had been attempting to buy commercial property in Sugarcreek Twp.in Greene County, a local official said.

While McIntyre says it is not known when neighbors will be able to return, Bobrowicz said he is using the down time to catch up on other jobs, admitting this week’s crash brings home the notion there are no guarantees for the future.

Dinh-Zarr said she expects that the NTSB will be in Akron for two days, although the investigation may take longer.

“I was just in shock, and I was crying and upset”, she told WEWS of her feelings when she learned about the crash.

Sherman Ivey who lives in an apartment on Mogadore thought the plane crash was a huge gust of wind until he heard the emergency vehicles and went outside to see smoke and flames. He said he hears aircraft overhead all the time, but that day, he knew something was wrong.

(CNN)Roberta Porter was driving with her grandson through Akron, Ohio, when a plane “dropped out of the sky”.

The chartered plane left Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Monday and stopped in St. Paul, Minn.; Moline, Ill.; and St. Louis before arriving in Cincinnati, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. His family said his proudest moment was captaining the New Hartford High School hockey team to a state championship. The jet flew low over the tree tops, then banked sharply with the left wing hitting the ground first.

Pebb Enterprises issued a statement that said “our hearts are broken” with the “unimaginable loss” of two principals and five employees.

It’s not clear what caused the crash.

The front of the apartment building was destroyed.

The safety board is also in the process of reviewing the plane’s maintenance records, Dinh-Zarr said. “It is heavily burned, and that what lies the problem with the recovery at this point, and that’s why we have the specialists”, Haymaker said.