4/14/14 Flight plan in fatal plane crash shows bad weather over crash area

                        
SUMMARY: Millersburg couple were halfway through flight when plane went down A Millersburg couple who died in a private airplane accident were about half way through their flight when their 1978 Piper aircraft went down in West Virginia. Lazarus Enoch Sommers, 50, and Maryann Sommers, 56, were killed in the crash, which occurred Friday April 11 near Glasgow, West Virginia. No one else was aboard the plane. According to their flight plan, tracked by the aviation website flightaware.com using the Piper’s registration number, the Sommers’ were halfway through a 3 hour and 15 minute flight from Akron Fulton International and Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport in South Carolina when their plane went down. According to flightaware.com, the Sommers’ left Akron Fulton at 3:13 p.m., 17 minutes ahead of their scheduled departure time. Their estimated arrival at Spartanburg Memorial was 6:21 p.m. The two airports are 424 miles apart as the crow flies, according to flightaware.com. The FAA reports that the crash occurred “under unknown circumstances” in “mountainous terrain 22 miles” from Charleston, West Virginia. The flightaware.com website shows the Sommers’ flightpath passed through stormy weather while crossing over West Virginia. Initial reports state that the plane was may have been attempting to detour around bad weather when the crash occurred. The crash was reported by witnesses at approximately 5 p.m. near Glasgow, W. Va., in eastern Kanawha County, according to reports by news channel WCHS 8. The plane was located by 7 p.m., when emergency crews on site and reported two fatalities, according to WCHS 8. The Sommers’ plane was a seven passenger, single engine craft. The crash remains under investigation.


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