Five people had been killed after a single-engine airplane crashed beside a highway in Nashville, according to the city’s metro police department on Tuesday morning.
The plane reportedly crashed off the eastbound lanes past the Charlotte Pike exit. Police officials had posted on X saying that work was ongoing to find out from where the plane originated.
The Federal Aviation Administration is at the time of filing this report, currently on the scene and the National Transport Safety Board will arrive later on Tuesday, police had said.
A police representative had said that the control tower at Nashville’s John Tune airport had said that they received a message from a pilot at about 7:40 p.m. ET on Monday (00:40hrs GMT on Tuesday) reporting their aircraft was experiencing engine and power failure and needed permission to land, a police spokesperson told Reuters on Monday night.
Meanwhile a spokesperson for the Nashville Fire Department told Reuters that the plane imploded on impact.
The FAA, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and the Nashville Fire Department had not yet responded to Reuters’ requests for comment at this time.
One of the three highway lanes that was shut down due to the crash will reopen shortly and the other two should be open on Tuesday morning, police had said earlier.
