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Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Yahoo
Four people from Menomonie confirmed dead in Illinois plane crash
Four people from Menomonie, Wisconsin were killed in a small plane crash in central Illinois on Saturday. According to the Coles County Sheriff's Office, the crash happened around 10:16 a.m. west of the town of Trilla, which is located 190 miles south of Chicago, or about 55 miles south of Champaign, Illinois. The Cessna C180G plane made contact with power lines and crashed in a field near the Coles County Memorial Airport in nearby Mattoon, Illinois. The plane was en route from Nashville, Tennessee. The victims, two men and two women, are all from Menomonie. Illinois State Police is withholding their identities pending notification of family. The NTSB is investigating.
Miami Herald
20-04-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
Small plane with 4 aboard crashes in Illinois
A small plane with four people on board crashed Saturday morning in a field beside a roadway in rural Illinois, officials said. All four people died in the crash, the Illinois State Police said in a statement Sunday, adding that an 'active and ongoing investigation' was taking place at the scene. The plane crashed around 10:15 a.m. in Trilla, about 65 miles south of Champaign. Debris was scattered across the roadway, which was expected to be closed until later Sunday, police said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna 180, crashed about a dozen miles from Coles County Memorial Airport in Mattoon, Illinois, the Federal Aviation Administration said. All of the occupants were from Menomonie, Wisconsin, and were pronounced dead at the scene, the police said. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. It was unknown whether anyone on the ground was injured. 'We keep those impacted by the plane crash in our thoughts today,' Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said on social media. 'Thank you to the first responders who rushed to the scene.' In the past week, other small plane crashes have killed at least nine people. On Friday night, a small plane crashed into a river in eastern Nebraska, killing three people on board, officials said. On April 12, a small twin-engine plane crashed in a muddy field in New York, killing all six people on board. Flying remains the safest mode of transportation, experts say, but an unusual spate of crashes involving commercial airliners at the start of the year has raised travelers' anxieties about flying. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Copyright 2025
