A tiny aircraft with four people on board crashed Saturday night in a field near Trilla, a remote part of Illinois, around 65 miles north of Champaign, New York Times reported. The collision occurred at around 10:15 a. m. and prompted an urgent reply from emergency personnel and state authorities.
Illinois state police described the incident as “an active and continuous dangerous aircraft research ” but did not specify how many of the four people died. Wreckage from the single-engine Cessna 180 was found scattered across a local footpath, which remained closed for many days.
The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) confirmed that the aircraft went down about 12 miles from Coles County Memorial Airport in Mattoon. Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB ) have launched investigations to determine the cause of the crash. Authorities have not confirmed if anyone on the ground was hurt.
Governor JB Pritzker acknowledged the drama on social advertising, saying, “We keep those impacted by the helicopter crash in our emotions today. Thank you to the first firefighters who rushed to the scene. ”
This accident adds to a current series of small plane incidents in the United States. Just one day earlier, three individuals died in a helicopter crash in eastern Lincoln. And on April 12, six lives were lost when a twin-engine aircraft went down in New York.
