Accident in Tennessee

Plane “broke apart in the air”: three dead

Three people were killed in a terrifying plane crash in the US state of Tennessee on Wednesday. "It looks like the plane broke apart in mid-air," said police spokesman Mark Elrod of the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.

According to US media, an initial emergency call was received around midday due to the sound of an explosion and the discovery of aircraft parts. According to the report, there were three passengers on board the plane, a Beech V35 according to the US Transportation Security Administration. According to the police, the cause of the accident is unclear.

Rescue workers who arrived at the suspected crash site near Franklin, south of Tennessee's capital Nashville, quickly realized that it was not a rescue operation, but a search and rescue operation, according to local broadcaster Fox17.

Debris scattered far and wide
The plane had taken off from Baton Rouge in the state of Louisiana and was on its way to Louisville in Kentucky. The emergency services closed several roads as the debris was widely scattered in the surrounding area - several local residents reported to the police that they had found wreckage on their properties. Nothing else was apparently damaged.