Georgia Small Plane Crash: Two People Killed

[C0RI0LANUS]

Rockwell AC11 single-engine airplane. The NTSB is investigating.

The Covington Police Department said that a single-engine aircraft had taken off from the Covington Municipal Airport at approximately 11:21 p.m. on Saturday. The airport lost communication with the aircraft around 20 minutes later. Officers then located the crashed plane in woods near to the runway. Two people were in the plane, who were pronounced dead at the scene.

Covington Municipal Airport, is located to the east of downtown Atlanta and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the primary hub of Delta Air Lines, which handled more than 750,000 aircraft operations in 2024.



In April 2022, a Cessna 340 aircraft which took off from Covington Municipal Airport crashed into a storage yard near to a General Mills' Covington plant. The plane crashed around half a mile from the runway of the Covington Airport.

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I wonder if someone is keeping track of the aviation body count under the Trumpf/Musk regime.



Source:

https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-plane-crash-two-killed-covington-airport-latest-flight-2031881

[TheBlackAdder]

1. A private pilot and a student pilot. I don't think this has to do with Trump's FAA change.

[appmanga]

2. Unfortunately, these kinds of private pilot aircraft accidents aren't uncommon...

...and the region was plagued by high winds over the last 24 hours. Not to mention night flights can be challenging as it is. And Covington is at least 50 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson.

[C0RI0LANUS]

3. Thank you for the info.

Aviation attorney and former USAF navigator Jim Brauchle:

“There is probably, maybe not every day, but probably on average, every other day, a plane crash somewhere in the US.”

He added those crashes involved non-commercial aircraft “almost 99 percent of the time.”

Sources:

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/how-many-plane-crashes-2025-5366808/

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/statements/accident_incidents

[Disaffected]

4. I one asked a company pilot if he had ever flown a glider.

He scoffed and said he would not even fly in a single engine aircraft let alone one with no engines.

[WarGamer]

5. Approx 350 fatalities in civila aviation annually... that's around 1 a day average for the last several years.

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. Thank you WarGamer. No matter the FAA budget size, there will be daily crashes of small planes because of

of probability and statistics.