3 dead when 2 planes collide in air at small Georgia airport
CARROLLTON, Ga. — A flight instructor, her student and a third person died Wednesday after two small airplanes collided in midair at a rural airport in western Georgia, where one witness told authorities the pilots may have been trying to land at the same time.
The single-engine planes crashed just before 11 a.m. near the end of the lone runway at West Georgia Regional Airport, said Carroll County Fire Chief Scott Blue. The airport is located in Carrollton, about 45 miles west of Atlanta.
Capt. Jeff Richards of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office identified the deceased flight instructor as 24-year-old Taylor Nicole Stone of East Ridge, Tennessee. Her student, who also died, was identified only as a male, pending notification of his family.
The third fatality, 79-year-old William Lewis Lindsey of College Park, was alone in the other plane, Richards said.