Three Dead After Small Plane Crashes Saturday
KEMP — Three people aboard a single-engine plane died Saturday after their aircraft plunged into a rural area of Kaufman County.
At around 3:40 p.m., the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Dispatch Center received a 911 call from a person who said a small white aircraft had crashed in a field along County Road 4072 in Kemp.
Firefighters from four nearby departments responded to the crash, where they found three unknown individuals deceased inside the aircraft.
“The aircraft appeared to be a general aviation single-engine aircraft,” according to a media release from the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office.
It was not immediately known what caused the accident, which left the plane charred to nearly a skeleton in the middle of a scorched field.
Investigators at the scene determined from witness statements that the aircraft had just taken off from a private grass airstrip a short distance away.
The crash also ignited a brush fire that burned nearly 2 acres of land.
No one else besides the three killed were on board, Kaufman County Sheriff’s spokesman Bryan Francis said. Names of the victims were not immediately released.
Shelley Bradley told The Dallas Morning News that she was standing near the airstrip when the plane dipped its wings and lost airspeed.
“He took off and the wind changed,” Bradley said. “He should have banked to the right but he banked to the left. He was flapping his wings as if he was saying goodbye, but then we realized he was in trouble.”
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