WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Cessna C501 plane with seven people on board crashed near Smyrna, a town in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with all of the people presumed dead.
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7 Presumed Dead After Plane Crashes Into Tennessee Lake, Officials Say
The authorities said operations had shifted from rescue to recovery for those aboard a plane that crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tenn., on Saturday.
A team from the Metro Nashville Office of Emergency Management searched for a plane that had crashed on Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna, Tenn., on Saturday.Credit.George Walker IV/The Tennessean, via Imagn
May 29, 2021
All seven people aboard a small plane were presumed dead after it crashed shortly after takeoff into a lake outside Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, the authorities said.
The plane, a Cessna Citation 501, crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tenn., at about 11 a.m. local time, shortly after it had taken off from Smyrna Airport, south of Nashville.