TAMPA - Emergency crews responded to a plane crash at Peter O. Knight Airport. just at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
The Tampa Police Dept. told the media that two people died in the crash, which happened as the plane was departing the airport on Davis Islands.
The aircraft was a twin-engine Cessna 340. Local authorities say the FAA and NTSB will be taking up the investigation.
According to FlightAware.com, the only plane departing at the same time was heading to Pensacola, but never made it there.
That plane is registered to local company Ninerxray Inc. with ties to Tampa pilot, Steven Dendrinos.
When reached by phone Friday afternoon, he was too upset to talk.
"I just heard the bang," said Emily Povey, who lives right across the street from the airprot. "I didn't see any flames until it was down that way a little bit."
Early reports indicated a second plane may have somehow been involved.
One witness, who did not want to be identified, described hearing a similar bang and then seeing a second plane fly away.
"Right now there are a lot of different stories circulating and right now it would be up to the FAA to do that investigation," said Mark Bogush, District Chief at Tampa Fire Rescue.
(Culled from abcactionnews.com)
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