The 34-year-old sports journalist Carley McCord is among the five killed in the plane crash in Lafayette on Saturday morning, u.s. time.
It also reaffirms the police to the local media KATC3.
Carley McCord worked for ESPN and Cox Sports. She has among other things covered the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and the NBA team New Orleans Pelicans close.
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Mccord died after a plane crash Saturday morning american time in the city Lafayette in Louisiana. Four others were killed also during the crash including two women in their fifties, a man of 51 and a 15-year-old girl.
Three persons who were on the ground during the crash are hospitalized with serious injuries.
Lafayette Police are responding to a plane crash near the intersection of Verot School Road and Fei Follet. No other details are available. We have a crew en-route. pic.twitter.com/tV7IU8kCDD
— KATC TV3 (@KATCTV3) December 28, 2019
WATCH: Footage from Lafayette, Louisiana, where a small plane hit at least 1 car and crashed in a field; reports of multiple fatalities pic.twitter.com/pQoFEcKMCE
— BNO News (@BNONews) December 28, 2019
Photo from the scene after a small plane carrying 6 people crashes near Lafayette, Louisiana, airport and strikes at least 1 vehicle; no word on casualties pic.twitter.com/aIQN0kJ8JH
— BNO News (@BNONews) December 28, 2019
– It is a smaller aircraft of the type Piper Fixed Wing Multi-Engine, according to KATC is the crash. There were a total of eight persons in the aircraft, says beredskabschef Robert Benoit to the local KLFY-TV, according to news agency AP.
Eyewitnesses say the plane hit a power cord as it tried to make a safety or emergency landing around at nine o’clock Saturday morning local time.
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