Flight of plane that crashed and killed two originated in Monroe County
The flight of a single-engine airplane that crashed in Shelby County Wednesday, killing two men, originated from the Monroe County Airport.
Data from FlightAware, a flight-tracking website, shows that a Cirrus SR22 Turbo plane left the Monroe County Airport just west of Bloomington at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday. Radar contact was lost 41 minutes later north of Fairland near the Shelbyville Municipal Airport.
An Indiana State Police news release said troopers and Shelby County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to reports that a plane had crashed north of Interstate 74 at 4:50 p.m.
When police arrived, smoke was coming from a burning plane that had crashed in a cornfield. The news release said the remains of one man was visible in the wreckage. The body of a second man was discovered later that night
As of Friday night, investigators had not released the crash victims' names.
Data from the FlightAware site shows the aircraft first arrived at the Monroe County Airport on Nov. 19, flying in from Greenville, South Carolina.
Later the same day, the plane took off from the airport and landed there again one hour and 12 minutes later.
On Nov. 20, the plane flew 26 minutes to Terre Haute, landed there and took off for another 27-minute flight before landing again. The plane then left Terre Haute and was in the air one hour and 11 minutes before landing in West Lafayette. From there, it flew 38 minutes back to Bloomington.
Nov. 21, the plane left the Monroe County Airport and flew an hour and 11 minutes to Nashville, Tennessee. The return trip that same day took two hours and eight minutes.
On Wednesday, Nov. 22, the plane departed and landed several times at the Monroe County Airport, with short spans of flight time between. The plane took off for the final time that day at 4:05 p.m., headed for the Shelbyville airport. It was last seen on radar at 4:46 p.m.
Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com or 812-318-5967.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Flight of fatal Shelby County plane crash originated in Bloomington
