Personal Injury Law

Two dead in plane crash near Missouri border

By Ryan Bradley, Esq.

Joseph Ross, 62, and his son, Michael Ross, 32, were killed when their plane crashed near the Missouri-Arkansas border.

According to local media reports, the pair were flying from Danville, Ill. to Austin, Texas when the fatal airplane accident occurred. The plane lost contact with ground radar stations, but did not send out a distress signal. A witness on the ground later came upon the crash site, which was about 90 miles north of Little Rock, and contacted emergency response crews.

First responders were on the scene in minutes, but the plane was in flames when they got there.

Investigators are now trying to determine what caused the Missouri plane crash. It is not known which of the two on-board were flying the plane at the time of the crash. Reports suggest that it began to rain around the time of accident, but it is not known whether this contributed to the incident.

The plane they were flying was a 1982 Cessna T-210.

Joseph Ross was the owner of United Flight Services, a training and rental company located in Watsonville. This is the second crash to connected to the business as last month a Piper Cherokee from the company crashed near the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Full post as published by Missouri Accident Lawyer Blog on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).