OnsceneALERT
Oct 10, 20211 min
CRITICAL INCIDENT NOTIFICATION
AVIATION INCIDENT
A single-engine plane crashed and caught fire on Friday during takeoff at an airport just northeast of Atlanta, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Four people on board the Cessna 210 were killed, according to Capt. Jaeson Daniels with DeKalb County Fire Rescue.
The plane was taking off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Chamblee, Georgia, around 1:11 p.m. local time on Friday, according to a release from the FAA, when the plane then crashed.
Daniels said there was an active fire when DeKalb County Fire Rescue arrived, and the department worked to extinguish the flames.
Photo Credit: CNN
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident, with the NTSB in charge of the investigation, according to Daniels.
An NTSB investigator is expected to arrive on scene Saturday morning, the NTSB said.
The airport, known as PDK, is located about 22 miles north of the main Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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Incident Number
2-211007-3801
Alert Type
Critical Incident Notification
Incident Type
Aviation Incident
Incident Occurred
October 8, 2021
Alert Posted
October 10, 2021
5:07 pm CST
Last Updated
October 10, 2021
5:07 pm CST
Incident Location
Chamblee, Georgia
END OF ALERT