Thanks to Chuck Biddinger for these images taken earlier tonight… the story below is from abc3340.com. I have to wonder if the low ceiling and poor visibility had something to do with this…
A small plane crashed in a residential area near the Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport Wednesday night, killing 1 person.
Witnesses said the aircraft seemed to “fall out of the sky.” The plane, a Beech BE-58 crashed about 50 yards from a house along 78th Street North and 6th Avenue North and burst into flames. The site is about six blocks from the edge of the Birmingham Airport property.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the aircraft was on approach to a runway at the airport when it went down.
Authorities are still trying to determine what caused the crash.
(Photos removed for bandwidth purposes 5:33 a.m. Friday)
