A small plane crashed into a McKinney construction site Thursday, leaving two occupants dead while a third was hospitalized with injuries, authorities said.
Around 10:25 a.m., the plane — a twin-engine Cessna 414 — crashed near Farm to Market Road 546 and County Road 317 shortly after departing McKinney National Airport, 1508 Industrial Blvd. Two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene and one was transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Sgt. Kyle Bradford, a Department of Public Safety spokesperson, told The Dallas Morning News.
Bradford said the names of the dead could not yet be released.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash, spokespeople for the federal agencies confirmed Thursday.
The circumstances leading to the crash are unclear. Sarah Taylor Sulick, an NTSB spokesperson, said an investigator was en route to the crash site to begin documenting the scene and receive the aircraft for further evaluation.
In 2023, the NTSB investigated 103 reported cases of aviation accidents in Texas, primarily involving general aviation. Texas typically ranks among the top three states — with California and Florida — for accidents, a former director of the safety board’s investigations division told The News earlier this year.
Earlier this month, a 27-year-old pilot died and her co-pilot was hospitalized after their plane crashed during an instructional flight in Cooke County — the second fatal crash associated with a Denton-based flight school since 2019.
In May, a 19-year-old student pilot died after crashing into a Johnson County field. A preliminary report examining that crash found no evidence of a pre-impact malfunction or a mechanical failure.
