Miss. Plane Crash Claims Three Lives
A private airplane crashed just outside McComb before dawn, killing all three people aboard.
McComb Police Chief Greg Martin said the plane crashed Sunday into trees near the McComb-Pike County Airport in a moderately populated area on the western edge of the city. The plane was a Cessna 310R, a dual-engine propeller craft.
Authorities told the McComb Enterprise-Journal that the plane left New Orleans around 4 a.m. and was en route to McComb. That’s about a 110-mile flight.
Authorities identified two of the victims to the newspaper as 22-year-old Laura Pickett of Summit and her sister, 29-year-old Jaqueline Hamm of Meadville. Martin wouldn’t identify the pilot.
Martin said the Federal Aviation Administration has sent two investigators to the scene.
