VIDEO/PHOTOS: A woman was pronounced dead after a small plane crashed near Interstate 65 and Main Street in Greenwood on Wednesday. Just before 11 a.m., the small plane began making a series of strange aerial maneuvers before it slammed into a grassy ditch, killing the pilot who was the only person on board.
Multiple witnesses saw the plane lose control before nose-diving into the ground just a few feet behind a gas station. “The plane was kind of banking and they started to lower and then pulled up and started to roll, and I thought it’s like a sky show and they went straight into the ground,” said witness Amanda Landwerlen. “She was banking hard left to go north, and all of the sudden, the nose dove and she went into a spin and just went straight down,” said witness Frank Williams.
Williams said he called 911 and ran toward the downed plane, but there was nothing anyone could do to save the pilot’s life. Officials with the Greenwood Fire Department said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate what may have caused the plane to go down in a busy area, located a mile southeast of the Indy South Greenwood Airport.
