CONROE, Texas (AP) — Officials in Texas say two people — a man and a woman — died Saturday when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport north of Houston.
Trooper Erick Burse of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the two are thought to be a father and adult daughter, but neither could be positively identified without an autopsy.
Burse says the fiery crash happened about 9 a.m. a half-mile north of the Conroe airport where the plane took off. Conroe is about 40 miles north of Houston.
He says the pilot had reported smoke in the cockpit and declared an emergency moments before the crash of the single-engine, kit-built Ravin 500 owned by Loyd Woodward of Girard, Texas. Burse says Woodward isn’t thought to be among the dead.
