Three people have been killed after two small planes collided midair near McKinney in the US state of Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the two planes collided soon after 5:30 p.m. local time on Saturday near Aero Country Airport, which is a private airport located about 35 miles north of downtown Dallas.
“They were making a turn and one of the planes slid into the other,” Rodney Livermore, a witness, told the media. “You heard a loud crash and bang. One of them came straight down. The other one had a little control, but it was coming down. There was no stopping it.”
“Both aircraft were flying under Visual Flight Rules and were not in contact with air traffic control at the time of the collision,” according to FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford.
Witnesses said that the tail end of one of the planes broke off sending the aircraft spiraling to the ground while the other plane crashed into a Home Depot at Custer Road and Virginia Parkway.