Their single-engine aircraft crashed in a forested location in Kill Devil Hills close to the First Flight Airport, killing four adults and one child.
On Saturday, a single-engine aircraft at the Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport on the Outer Banks in Kill Devil Hills crashed into some woods, killing five people.
All five of the victims have been identified for the first time. They are listed in the following order:
Ajit Adhikari, 31, from Silver Spring, Maryland
The 43-year-old Jason Ray Campbell of Southern Pines, NC
At Southern Pines, North Carolina, Kate McAllister Neely, 39,
Georgian resident Matthew Arthur Fassnacht, 44,
An unidentified 6-year-old boy
Superintendent David Hallac of the Outer Banks Group’s Fort Raleigh National Historic Site said, “National Park Service employees at Wright Brothers National Memorial, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site… extend their deepest condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones affected by this tragedy.”
The National Park Service reports that the collision happened in a forested region at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday. When the jet crashed, some passengers were still inside the park, according to a Dare County sheriff’s officer.
According to eyewitnesses, the aircraft burned when it attempted to land at the airport due to a subsequent fire. The Kill Devil Hills Fire Department, together with other area departments, put out the fire.
Witness Nadia Popruzhenko claimed that when driving to the store, she noticed it.
“At the beginning, I thought he was really high, and all of a sudden, he just went down a little too quick,” she explained. “This one went down so quick that I thought it was too low.”
The crash of the Cirrus SR-22 aircraft is still being looked into by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The following organizations are acknowledged by Wright Brothers National Memorial for their responses to the plane crash on September 28: the fire and police departments of Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk; law enforcement rangers from the National Park Service; the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and North Carolina Forest Service; and the Dare County Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Management, and Sheriff’s Office.
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