You've probably noticed by now that I do a good deal of flying in and around the Athens/Winder area.  I was shocked to see that this morning a vintage plane went down after taking off from Athens Benn Epps.  You can view the story here.

Unfortunately, the two aboard did not survive when the plane fell in the back yard of a home approximately 1 mile from the airport.  The plane was a Japanese light communications plane from the late '50s and was said to be an exhibition aircraft for airshows.

I don't like speculating about incidents, so we'll have to wait and see what the cause of this unfortunate incident was.  With it going down just a mile from the airport after takeoff, I'm guessing it was something drastic and happened suddenly.

The NTSB investigation will show for sure.