MIAMI – One person died and another was injured and was hospitalized as a result of the overturning of the executive plane in which they were going to take off from an airfield in Orlando (Florida) due to the effect of a wind storm, official sources reported.
A spokesman for the Orlando Executive Airport told local media this Friday that a Diamond DA16 Twin Star plane with two people on board overturned on Thursday afternoon while on the taxiway.
Another plane that was parked with no one on board also turned over due to the wind with gusts of 62 miles per hour (99 km/h) also caused damage to hangars and other structures From the airport.
When they arrived at the scene of the accident, firefighters found one person dead and another who was taken to the hospital for trauma.
“There were ev idence that the planes that were parked were moved by the wind“said the director of the Orlando Executive Airport and air traffic controller, Judith-Ann Jarrette, to the local channel WESH.
“The The plane that had taxied to depart was waiting and, unfortunately, that system moved so fast, it was so severe with very strong gusts of wind, that it turned the plane over”.
The National Board of Transportation Security will conduct an investigation into the accident.