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Small Jet Crash kills 5 near Augusta

Thomson, Ga.-a small plane, landed his landing at Georgia Airport before reaching a 60-foot supply rod and fell, killed five people on board and left two injuries, the federal authorities said on Thursday.
Robert Sumwalt, board member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said on Thursday afternoon at a press conference that the plane broke out on flames after the crash. One of the wings of the aircraft was cut off when he hit the pole, causing the aircraft to lick the fuel, which then ignited, he said. The plane is almost completely destroyed.
“You go up and tell you: 'Where's the plane?',” Said Sumwalt.
It is not immediately known why the plane broke off its landing.
Logan Marshall, Sheriff of Thomson-McDuffie County, said two survivors were brought to hospitals. A man was in a critical condition in the Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, said the spokeswoman for the hospital, Christian Carter. The state of the other survivor and where this person was taken is not known.
The plane had decreased and crashed from Nashville, Tennessee, while at the regional airport of Thomson-McDuffie, about 30 miles west of Augusta, landed, said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said that the five deaths were brought to an agency laboratory for autopsies. They were not identified.
Five of the on board on board a connection clinic in Augusta, which also has offices in Tennessee, said Dr. Stephen Davis, a plastic surgeon who works for the Vein Guys clinic in Nashville. Davis said that those on board were: Dr. Steven Roth, two ultrasound technicians, anesthetist and secretary. He said Roth regularly flew into the Clinics of Vein -although other doctors who worked for the clinic did not travel.
Davis said his brother Dr. Keith Davis and Roth co -founder of the clinic in Augusta. He described Roth as “a great guy, a great doctor who is dedicated to the patient and his family”.
Stephen Sewell, fire chief of Assistant County, told the Augusta Chronicle that the two survivors were pilot and passenger. But he did not provide any additional information about it on board.
Near the crash scene, about half a mile from the airport in forests behind an industrial complex, a brush fire flared up. Witnesses reported power outages that prompted a supply company to send the employees to the website.
The crash site was on the opposite side of a state motorway, from which the runway ends.
Patricia Reese and her husband live in a farmhouse near the site. She said on Thursday that she was scared on Wednesday evening when they were scared of noise and power failure.
“The lights blinked and went out, and suddenly we heard this sound,” said Reece. “It sounded like thunder, which just continued and continued.”
Reece's husband grabbed a flashlight and they made themselves on the field behind their house. They soon saw flashing lights from emergency vehicles and thick smoke that flocked out of the forest, she said.

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