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West Palm Beach, Florida plane crash kills four

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

A Piper PA-44 in flight
Image: KGG1951.

A plane crash at about 6:00 pm local time yesterday at the Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida killed four people. The aircraft involved in the incident was a twin-engine Piper PA-44 registered to FIT Aviation LLC, a Melbourne, Florida flight school.

According to the National Transportation Safety Board when the plane took off it encountered trouble with the left engine. It crashed into the tarmac, causing a fiery explosion. The dead have been identified as 26-year-old flight instructor Dheni Frembling, 21-year-old and 22-year old flight students Jordyn Agostini and 22-year-old Kristopher Henegar, and his 26-year-old brother Kyle Henegar.

The plane was flying a training flight from the Bahamas to Melbourne via Palm Beach when it crashed.

Sources

  • 4 dead after small plane crash — WEAR ABC, November 12, 2010
  • Associated Press. 3 dead, 1 injured after small plane crash in West Palm Beach — Naples News, November 11, 2010
  • Victims In West Palm Beach Plane Crash Named — CBS4, November 12, 2010


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