Investigators
from the National Transportation Safety Board and the
Federal Aviation Administration are still sifting through
the wreckage to determine what caused Wednesday morning's
plane crash that took the lives of two Senoia residents.
Steven
DiStevano and Steven Gurley both died early Wednesday
morning when the Piper Navajo Chieftan plane DiStevano
was piloting went down within a half mile of the
Newnan-Coweta Airport near Moreland.
Coweta
County Sheriff Mike Yeager said his department received a
911 call at 5:30 a.m. reporting a possible airplane crash
near the airport. Officials from the Sheriff's
Department, the Fire Department and emergency services
responded to the scene within minutes and discovered the
wreckage of the plane just south of the airport.
Yeager said
that, while the investigation is in the hands of federal
officials now, the crash could be weather related since
there was heavy fog Wednesday morning.
The flight
originated at the Coweta County airport and was
apparently returning from a cargo drop-off when the crash
occurred, the sheriff added.
DiStevano
worked for a company that delivered copies of the New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today to
several Southeastern markets, said Yeager.
DiStevano
and Gurley were roommates at a Lawshe Road address in
Senoia and were believed to be in their middle 30s.
The sheriff
did not know when the federal investigation would be
completed and results would be released to the public.
Yeager said
this is the first fatality at the airport in more than 30
years.







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