NEW ALBANY, Miss.—A sheriff says all three people aboard a twin-engine jet were killed when it crashed in some woods in northern Mississippi.
Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards tells news outlets that those killed were pilot Tommy Nix and wife Merline Nix of Belmont, Mississippi, and co-pilot Jarrod Holloway of Booneville, Mississippi.
Dickie Scruggs said he and his family got off the plane in Oxford.
Posted by Clarion Ledger on Monday, April 15, 2019
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt tells the Associated Press that the Rockwell Sabreliner 65 aircraft crashed about 10:30 p.m. Saturday between New Albany and Blue Springs.
FATAL CRASH: Severe storms were sweeping through Mississippi at the time, but it isn’t immediately clear if the weather was a factor in the crash. https://t.co/2QDnr6QVxq
— WHNT (@whnt) April 15, 2019
The jet was bound for Alabama’s Marion County-Rankin Fite Airport from University-Oxford Airport in Mississippi.
Severe storms were sweeping through Mississippi at the time, but Breitenfeldt says it was not immediately clear if the weather was a factor in the crash.
He says the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
