Midnight distress call leads police to private plane that crashed in woods, GA cops say
A late-night private plane crash may have startled some residents in a nearby Georgia neighborhood.
Police found the plane crashed nose-down in a wooded area near a neighborhood in Jonesboro, according to an Oct. 11 Clayton County Police Department Facebook post. Responders searched for over an hour before finding the plane and two women.
Just before midnight, Clayton County police responded to a distress call reporting that a private plane was “running out of gas,” officials say. As a result, responders were sent to the lower Clayton County area to try to find the plane.
Following their hourlong search, police located the plane, as well as two women who were “on the forest floor with injuries,” according to officials. A photo of the plane shows part of the cockpit smashed into the ground, as well as some crumpling of the tail between thin trees.
The two women were sent to a hospital to have their injuries checked, officials say. Their injuries were “non-life threatening,” according to police.
“This is a miracle that these two ladies survived to tell the story,” one Facebook user wrote.
Jonesboro is about 15 miles south of Atlanta.
This story was originally published October 11, 2023 at 1:24 PM with the headline "Midnight distress call leads police to private plane that crashed in woods, GA cops say."
