Authorities confirmed that two people are dead after a Thursday night plane crash near Charleston, South Carolina.
Charleston County airport officials confirmed Friday morning that the two people aboard a previously missing light sport aircraft have died, according to WCSC. The wreckage from the plane was found shortly before 8 a.m. Friday. By 9 a.m., officials confirmed that two people were killed in the plane crash near Wando River in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
FAA air traffic controllers lost contact with a light sport aircraft as it was approaching Mount Pleasant Regional-Faison Field Airport about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, FAA spokesperson Kathleen Bergen told the news station. Airport officials immediately issued an alert notice, which triggered a search for the aircraft, she said.
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rews from the U.S. Coast Guard, Mount Pleasant Police and Mount Pleasant Fire searched the area of the Wando River near the Toomer Creek entrance for more than three hours early Friday.
