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Globe/Gary Crow Traffic creeps along Monday in the outside lanes while authorities go about their work as the wreckage of a small plane continues to smolder just west of the Miami exit on the Will Rogers Turnpike. The pilot, who was alone in the plane, was killed.

Published April 28, 2008 05:21 pm - MIAMI, Okla. — Bryan Moore was at work Monday afternoon at Northeastern Tribal Health System when he heard a shrill, whining noise, like that of a radio-controlled plane, and looked up.


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MIAMI, Okla. — Bryan Moore was at work Monday afternoon at Northeastern Tribal Health System when he heard a shrill, whining noise, like that of a radio-controlled plane, and looked up.

He saw an actual white turboprop airplane tumbling out of control in the sky over the Miami exit of the Will Rogers Turnpike.

“It was just sitting there at 500 to 600 feet,” Moore recalled in a phone interview with the Globe. “It was spinning around. It did an end-over-end. It did a loop. It hung there like it stalled, and then it just fell propeller forward.”

The plane nearly hit an overpass, Moore said, before crashing into the highway and sending a plume of fire 50 to 60 feet into the air.

Moore said he then called 911. It was 2:12 p.m., he said.

“There was just a tremendous amount of black smoke,” he said. “It was horrible.”

Authorities later Monday afternoon began the search for answers to why the plane, identified as a single-engine, turboprop Turbine Legend model, crashed in a westbound lane of Interstate 44, just west of the Miami exit.

The pilot — the plane’s lone occupant — was killed in the crash, according to Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board. No injuries were reported on the ground.

Information about the plane’s origin and destination was unavailable from local or federal authorities.

Knudson said he did not have any information about the pilot’s name. That information is released by local authorities, he said.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol was withholding the name of the pilot pending notification of relatives. Efforts to reach the Ottawa County coroner were unsuccessful early Monday night.

Investigators had just begun their probe, and the NTSB would not issue its findings until after that probe was complete, Knudson said. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration, which will be helping the NTSB with its probe, will be dispatched to the crash area.

There was no answer Monday night when the Globe called a phone number listed for Tromsness Enterprises Inc., of Quapaw, which authorities said was listed as owner of the aircraft.



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