Plane crashes into Akron apartment building in Ohio killing all on board

Scene of the crash

A private charter jet with nine people on board crashed into an Akron apartment building Tuesday afternoon, leaving no survivors. The owner of the plane confirmed nine people were on board. It appeared no one on the ground in the Ellet area where the crash occurred was injured or killed. Eyewitnesses described the plane as falling out of the sky and a huge ball of fire after the crash, which happened shortly before 3 p.m.
Augusto Lewkowicz, the owner and operator of the plane, told the Beacon Journal Tuesday afternoon that he would not release the names of the seven passengers or two crew members in the fatal crash near the corner of Mogadore and Skelton roads in Akron.
“I owe responses to the family members first,” Lewkowicz said.

It wasn’t known whether any of the crash victims were from the Akron area.
The mid-size corporate jet was on the second leg of a charter that began Monday, Lewkowicz said, noting that there was no indication prior to the crash that anything was wrong.
“It was a perfectly well-maintained aircraft with no squawks,” Lewkowicz said, adding that there was no chatter from the pilots to indicate anything was out of the ordinary.
The flight was chartered by Execuflight, a Florida company.
The aircraft clipped electrical and telephone wires on Mogadore Road before hitting a small apartment building at 2:53 p.m. at 3041 Mogadore Road and careening into an embankment. That building was completely destroyed, Haymaker said. A second house in the area also was damaged, likely from the fire debris. The occupants of the building that was destroyed weren’t home at the time of the crash.
The National Weather Service reported fog and mist in the area around the time of the crash and recorded visibility at about 1.5 miles.