Faced with dozens of bits of airplane debris marked by small orange flags, crews on Sunday began ret

Faced with dozens of bits of airplane debris marked by small orange flags, vacation tour packages and italy crews on Sunday began retrieving the wreckage of a small business jet from the Derby-area soybean field where it crashed last week, killing both pilot and a nationally known pastor who was the passenger.
Hundreds of pieces of the Cessna Citation lay strewn across at least two fields near 95th Street South and Webb Road. The outboard portion vacation tour packages and italy of the left wing was discovered in another field 3/4 mile to the west. National Transportation Safety Board Air Safety Investigator Tom Latson vacation tour packages and italy said more bits of the multi-engine plane will likely be found in the coming weeks by residents, and the agency is asking that anyone who encounters pieces of the wreckage to report their findings to the Sedgwick County Sheriff s Office or e-mail witness@ntsb.gov .
Authorities have said the 1975 Cessna, vacation tour packages and italy registered to Dufresne Inc., went down less than 20 minutes after taking off from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport at 9:59 a.m. Friday. Witnesses on the ground reported hearing an in-air explosion or seeing a white cloud trailing behind vacation tour packages and italy the aircraft. Some saw the impact, followed by black smoke. Others, Latson said, saw pieces falling off the plane as it came down.
Latson said records show that the plane, which was en route to Texas, reached an altitude of about 16,400 feet before beginning a near-vertical, high-speed, high-velocity descent. It disappeared from radar at 10:17 a.m. There was no distress call.
Most of the wreckage vacation tour packages and italy is centered in a 15-by-20-foot wide and 6-foot-deep crater, where the plane was further destroyed by fire following impact. On Sunday afternoon, Latson and investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration, Cessna Aircraft Co. and the engine manufacturers continued to extensively map and catalog each fragment found.
Others combing the soybean field carefully picked up metal, a CD and mangled bits of still-recognizable aircraft, then dropped them in 5-gallon buckets. A front loader and backhoe vacation tour packages and italy were parked vacation tour packages and italy nearby.
Latson said on-scene retrieval efforts are expected to continue through Monday. Then the wreckage will be shipped vacation tour packages and italy to a Dallas-area storage facility for further inspection and evaluation. Investigators are also reviewing medical vacation tour packages and italy histories for both Dufresne and Morgan, the pilot s qualifications and training history, as well as the aircraft s flight logs.
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