LAKEVIEW — Authorities say an airplane crash in northern Arkansas near popular trout fishing site Gaston's White River Resort has killed three people.
In a statement, Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said three others were injured in the crash just after 9 a.m. Friday. Montgomery said one injured person was flown to a hospital in Springfield, Mo., and two others were taken to a hospital in Mountain Home.
Montgomery said two victims died at the scene and the third died at the Mountain Home hospital later in the day.
Witnesses at the scene told a reporter with the Baxter Bulletin that the Piper Cherokee Lance airplane was wobbling and tilting from side to side as tried to take off. They said the plane smashed through a fence at the end of the turf runway and crashed into a small grove of trees. The plane's fuselage apparently broke away and landed about 20 feet from other wreckage.
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Gaston's White River Resort
Nearby Bull Shoals Dam suspended power generation shortly after the crash.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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