FAA: 2 dead in small plane crash in Watertown
Updated: 11:37 a.m. on June 15, 2023
WATERTOWN, Wis. (CBS 58) -- CBS 58 has learned two people were killed in a plane crash in Watertown on Wednesday, June 14, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The single-engine Mooney M20 crashed near the Watertown Municipal Airport around 9 a.m.
The FAA and NTSB are investigating.
Published: 9:51 a.m. on June 14, 2023
WATERTOWN, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Authorities responded to a fatal small plane crash in Watertown Wednesday morning, June 14.
Officials say the airplane had taken off from the Watertown Municipal Airport and crashed shortly after 9:00 in the morning. There were small fires around the crash site.
The fires were quickly extinguished by fire crews.
Police were not able to confirm how many passengers were onboard the plane, which according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was a Mooney M20.
The identity of the victim(s) will be held until family is notified.
15-year-old Brady Lessner was doing yardwork nearby when he said he heard a large boom and felt the ground shake. He ran to the site of the crash to see if he could help and called police.
"Just saw this huge like mushroom cloud of smoke, black smoke," Lessner said. "Debris. There was like a little engine. There was a shoe on fire. There was a couple wheels like scattered all over the place."
The crash is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB.
NTSB investigating the crash of a Mooney M20R aircraft near Watertown, Wisconsin.
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) June 14, 2023
Police have the entirety of Brandt-Quirk Park taped off. A young man who lives nearby told me he could feel the ground shake as the plane it the ground and saw a ‘mushroom cloud’ of black smoke. pic.twitter.com/rOPmeVMbkE
— Emerson Lehmann (@lehmann_emerson) June 14, 2023
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