A small aircraft crashed into the roof of a house in in North Central Washington Town of Cashmere, according to local media. Two people have been left injured and were hospitalised immediately. The four-seater plane, 182Q Skylane, crashed near the Cashmere Middle School at 5:30 PM local time and was just 228 metres away from the airstrip.
The home was located on Tigner Road, near the Cashmer-Dryden Airport. No resident in the house was injured, and the two occupants on board who were airlifted to Harborview Medical Centre have been reported in stable condition, the Sheriff’s office revealed.
However, the cause of the crash remains unknown and the investigation is underway. Chelan County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board have been brought on board.
US aircraft mishaps
This comes a day after a Delta Air Lines plane faced severe turbulence, which left 25 people hospitalised. Carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew members, it was bound for Amsterdam but was diverted to Minneapolis after the in-flight disturbance. As per eyewitness accounts, one of the crew members was sent flying after the food cart misbalanced in the aircraft aisle.
Similarly, American Airlines, in July, faced an emergency evacuation after fire was spotted in the plane. Passengers, already on board, were evacuated with a slide just minutes before take-off.
The repeated civil aviation accidents have come under scrutiny after the fatal Air India Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12. Taking the lives of over 260 people on board, it nose-dived into a medical college hostel in the city, a black day in civil aviation history. While the cause of the crash was not pinpointed by officials, the Boeing aircraft had a sudden fuel engine switch cut-off mid-air in an attempt to regain thrust.