Fifteen people perished Tuesday evening in a plane crash, near the airport of Raleigh/Durham, in North Carolina. According to the police, there are only five survivors, including two in “critical condition”, among the eighteen passengers and two crew members.
This accident is a new blow for American eagle, the regional transport company, a subsidiary of American Airlines, which recorded its fifth fatal crash there in seven years, and the second in a few weeks. On October 31, an ATR-72 crashed in Roselawn, Indiana. All 68 passengers and crew were killed.
The plane, a Jetstream Super 31 flying from Greensboro to Raleigh/Durham, crashed in a wooded area near Morrisville in rainy and foggy weather. When it hit the ground, the aircraft split in two and a fire broke out in the cockpit. According to American Airlines, the plane had yet undergone an inspection four days earlier.
Following the disaster of October 31, it seems, by the accumulation of ice on the wings of the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had banned flights in severe weather. ice, last week, 153 ATR were operated by nine airlines. On Monday, American eagle decided to transfer its 70 ATRs to the states of Florida, Texas and Tennessee, where the weather conditions are better. (AFP)
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