Wreckage of the plane in the trees
A pilot who died when his light aircraft crashed just a few metres away from a house was reportedly a US Air Force general. The single-engine Cessna 210 came down in a field near a retirement community in Williamsburg, Virginia. There was no fire when it crashed.
State police confirmed that 54-year-old Joseph D Brown IV and his wife, 52-year-old Susan S Brown, were killed, along with their pet dog, reports Sky News. Brown had reportedly clocked up more than 4,300 flying hours in his background with the USAF, mainly in B1s and B52s. He also served combat time in operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom.
His official title was Major General of the Eisenhower School at Fort McNair, a premier Department of Defence national security training school in Washington, DC.
The pilot was supposed to land at the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport but the light aircraft crashed about half a mile away.
Firefighters said the plane fell out of the sky with a hard impact, nose first.
It ended up about 20 metres from Nancy and Bruce Ward's home."I was in my bedroom, heard a thud," Mrs Ward said.
"One of neighbours came to my door. He asked if I had a fire extinguisher because a plane had just crashed by my house.
"That was the first I had heard of it. We saw a plane that had apparently hit a tree right next to our driveway. It had gone straight down into the ground. There was no sign of life."
"It was about 15 feet away from our driveway," said Bruce Ward. "There are about 15 people out here huddling trying to figure out how to proceed."
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen reported there were no injuries or damage to any property on the ground.
Firefighters used a rope to help pull the wreckage from nearby trees.
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