MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Two people from Missouri died when a small plane crashed into a cornfield in eastern Iowa’s Muscatine County, authorities said.
The single-engine Piper went down Wednesday afternoon about 4 miles north of Muscatine, Sheriff Quinn Riess said.
Daniel Slack, 68, and Sharon Slack, 69, of El Dorado Springs, Missouri, died in the crash. Daniel Slack was superintendent of schools in Deerfield, Kansas, from 2015 until he retired last year, KSNW-TV reported.
A preliminary investigation determined the plane took off from Ford Airport near Iron Mountain, Michigan, to fly back to Missouri, Riess said.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the cause of the crash.
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MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Eastern Iowa authorities say two people are dead after their plane crashed in a cornfield, in Muscatine County. The Muscatine Journal reports the crash happened Wednesday, July 14, about four miles north of Muscatine.
Sheriff Quinn Riess says they were contacted around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, by Quad City Air Traffic Control, on a report that they had lost contact with an airplane in the area. Riess said deputies and police officers from Muscatine and Wilton launched a search on the ground and soon found the wreckage.
The names of the people killed haven’t been released yet.