A Kentucky resident received an unexpected visitor when an airplane crashed into the side of her home, reports KFVS 12. Luckily no one appears to have been hurt in the crash; the woman inside the house was fine, as was the pilot, who was the only person on board the aircraft. Many plane crashes are total disasters, even with small planes, but sometimes people escape relatively unharmed.
Details are fuzzy at this time as the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are still investigating what caused this crash, but the Graves County Sheriff’s Office has this to say:
Preliminary reports indicate that the aircraft had landed and the pilot was unable to get the aircraft stopped at the end of the runway. The aircraft continued through a grassy area, through a perimeter fence, across KY 58, and then into a residential structure. The residence was occupied by the resident but she was not injured.
Photos from the Sheriff’s Office show the chain link fence the plane dragged behind it. According to Google Maps, the overrun area provided a roughly 600-foot buffer between the end of the runway and Highway 58. A row of houses lies beyond, one of which was the house the plane crashed into.
It could’ve been a whole lot worse
While rolling across the grass, the pilot was likely not on an iPad and may have tried to turn right to avoid the house, or at least prevent a direct impact. The nose of the aircraft is intact, which is probably why the pilot escaped without injury. It looks like the left wing hit the house instead, with the shock causing bricks on the side and back corner of the house to fall off. We don’t have a good view of the point of impact or what happened to the left wing. We also don’t see any evidence of a fire after the crash, which is excellent news for all involved.
According to FAA records, the airplane is a 2013 Cessna 525C, a twin-engine business jet. It is registered to Stonecrest Capital, LLC, of South Fulton, Tennessee. The plane is not currently available for public tracking through FlightAware, which makes sense considering the ongoing crash investigation, so we don’t know how it came to be at Mayfield-Graves County Airport.
