THE PILOT IS DEAD AFTER PLANE CRASHES INTO WEST TEXAS TV TOWER
February
4, 2015
LUBBOCK,
Texas (AP) - One man is dead after the small aircraft he was flying crashed
into a TV tower as he approached an airport in West Texas.
Emergency
workers searched late Wednesday near the KCBD-TV tower in Lubbock for any other
victims. Lubbock police said Thursday that the pilot was alone.
The
Federal Aviation Administration reports the single-engine Piper PA-46 crashed
into the 814-foot tower while approaching Preston Smith International Airport
on a flight from Carlsbad, New Mexico. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the
aircraft dropped off radar around 7:30 p.m.
The
crash knocked the station off the air and cut power to the surrounding
neighborhood. KCBD personnel were told to evacuate their building but the
station was back on the air Thursday, broadcasting from a studio provided by
the Lubbock school district.