Tragedy struck yesterday near the Holly Springs-Marshall County Airport in Mississippi, where a small plane crash claimed two lives. According to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the incident around 5 p.m. in a thickly forested area on airport grounds, only to find a small craft ablaze on the south end of the runway, east of its expanse, per Action News 5.
Upon their arrival, encountering the wreckage that had cut through trees, the deputies were the first witnesses to a blazing aircraft scene, where two individuals were later pronounced dead at the site. As reported by FOX13 Memphis, multiple fire departments were called to the location at 171 A.Q. Greer Rd, where they managed to extinguish the fire.
The flames were so intense that initially, the model of the small aircraft could not be discerned, as Marshall County Sheriff Kenny Dickerson disclosed. The victims' identities and the aircraft's destination remain unknown at this moment. The sheriff's office has since been in contact with federal authorities, as stated in a WREG news report, and is maintaining security at the crash site in preparation for their investigation.
