Plane Crash In Butte Montana 17 People Dead Including Many Children (Photos)

The FAA confirmed 17 people have died in a plane crash in Butte, Montana. Read more on the Butte, Montana plane crash which resulted in 17 people killed, many were children.

FAA Spokesman Mike Fergus says preliminary reports indicate the dead included many children. “We think that it was probably a ski trip for the kids,” Fergus said.

The plane was traveling from Oroville, California before the plane crashed down into Holy Cross cemetery, officials told The Montana Standard.

Fergus said the pilot had filed a flight plan showing their final destination being Bozeman. The pilot had canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte.

The plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport while it was attempting to land and caught on fire.

Witnesses said they saw the plane approaching from the west, fly in sideways and crash straight down into the Holy Cross cemetery.

There are no known fatalities on the ground.

An eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.

“All of a sudden the pilot lost control and went into a nose dive,” said Kenny Gulick. “He couldn’t pull out in time and crashed into the trees of the cemetery.”

Fergus said the plane, a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, was manufactured in 2001. He said the National Transportation Safety Board has an investigator located in Butte who was thought to be on scene. The FAA’s flight standards investigator was en route.

There will be a press conference held at the airport.

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