BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) – A small plane with at least five people on board crashed Tuesday near the city of Bloomington in central Illinois.
The Chicago Tribune quotes the father-in-law of one of those on board as saying all five were killed while returning from the NCAA basketball championship in Indianapolis.
The Cessna 414 took off from Indianapolis and crashed just short of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington after midnight, the Federal Aviation Administration said. According to preliminary information, the FAA said, there may have been as many as seven people on board.
The Tribune report quotes Scott Barrows as saying his daughter’s husband, Scott Bittner, 42, was on board with three other men and the pilot.
“(They) went to the NCAA game last night and they were flying back and I guess the weather was bad in central Illinois. It was foggy,” Barrows told the Tribune. “They were supposed to land around midnight. My daughter was called at 4 a.m. … It has been confirmed they are dead.”