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Small jet crashes in Georgia, killing 5, wounding 2
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 21, 2013 at 11:18 a.m.
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THOMSON, Ga. — Federal and local authorities were investigating Thursday after a small jet crashed off the end of a runway at a Georgia airport, killing five people and injuring two.
The plane overran a runway during its landing and crashed into woods at the airport west of Augusta, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement Thursday morning.
Two survivors were taken to area hospitals in eastern Georgia after the Hawker Beechcraft 390/Premier I crashed shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thomson-McDuffie County Sheriff Logan Marshall said.
One of the survivors, a man, was in critical condition at Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, hospital spokesman Christen Carter said Thursday.
Where the other injured person was taken, as well as that person’s condition, were not immediately known.
The identities of those killed were being withheld until family members were notified, the sheriff said.
Five of those on board are affiliated with a vein clinic in Augusta that also has offices in Tennessee, said Dr. Stephen Davis, a plastic surgeon who works for the Vein Guys clinic in Nashville. Davis said those on board were: Dr. Steven Roth, two ultrasound technicians, a nurse anesthetist and a secretary. He said Roth regularly flew to Vein Guys clinics in the region, though other doctors working for the clinic did not travel.
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DontDrinkDatKoolAid says... February 22, 2013 at 2:04 a.m.
Wounding?
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