**UPDATE** Ashtabula
Post investigating fatal plane crash on SR 307
The airplane departed from the Germack
Airport
in Geneva
and crashed a short time later.
Alan C. Kettunen,
75, Geneva, received fatal injuries as a result of the crash. Jeffrey J. Roth,
59, Madison, received non life-threatening injuries.
The incident remains under investigation.
Ashtabula
Post investigating fatal plane crash on SR 307
Ashtabula
– The Ashtabula
Post of the Ohio State Highway
Patrol is investigating a fatal airplane crash that occurred just after 10 a.m.
on May 25 on SR 307 in Ashtabula
County,
Harpersfield
Township.
The preliminary investigation revealed a
Zenith 701, stuck a tree and crashed near SR 307. The Harpersifield
Township
Fire Department confirmed that a pilot and a passenger were onboard the
aircraft. One of the occupants received fatal injuries as a result of the
crash, and the second occupant received non life-threatening injuries.
The Ohio
State Highway Patrol was assisted at the
scene by the Ashtabula
County
Sheriff’s Office, Harpersfield Fire department and EMS,
the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation
Administration.
The incident remains under investigation.