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Old 14th May 2004, 14:59
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Small cargo plane crashes on approach to BWI

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004May14.html


"A small cargo plane crashed on its approach to Baltimore-Washington International Airport this morning, narrowly missing several homes, authorities said. The pilot was killed in the crash.

The two-engine turboprop, a Mitsubishi MU2, was carrying bank checks and financial documents from Philadelphia. Witnesses near BWI, in Anne Arundel County, said they saw the plane move erratically in the sky, and then drop like a stone. The plane landed in pieces between two houses in the residential neighborhood of Ferndale, just south of the airport.

"We're just fortunate that the plane went between the houses," said Battalion Chief John Scholz of the Anne Arundel fire department.

Lisa Ratsch, who lives less than a block from the crash site, said she was on her deck putting chlorine in her pool when she saw the plane, and could tell it was too low.

"It just sounded really close, like it shouldn't be that close," she said.

Ratsch said she watched the plane wobble from side to side, become inverted, and then pitch into a nose dive.

The pilot has been confirmed dead, but has not yet been identified, said Tracy Newman, a BWI airport spokesman. The plane was registered to Epps Aviation in Atlanta.

Pat Epps, the president of Epps Aviation, said the man killed in the crash was an experienced pilot in his thirties who was flying alone in the aircraft. The pilot had flown the route for the company for the past five years, Epps said. "
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