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Private Cessna Crashes en route to Council Bluffs, 3 Fatalities Reported

What: Privately owned Cessna 401 en route from Riverside Kansas to Council Bluffs Kansas
Where: Thomas Road between 1900 & 2000 or 9 miles west of Chanute, KS
When: May 11, 2012 16:36
Who: 5 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: The privately owned Cessna was en route to Council Bluffs when it told ATC it requested permission to descend to a lower altitude, then crashed near Chanute and caught on fire. The plane skidding 200 feet across a field before it hit trees.

23-year-old pilot, Luke F. Sheets, Garret Coble of Tulsa and Stephen J. Luth, 22 died in the crash according to Shawnee County Coroner’s Office-Topeka.

22-year-old Hannah N. Luce of Texas and 27-year-old Austin G. Anderson were injured. Hannah was hospitalized at KU Medical Center-Kansas City, KS and Austin at Christi St. Francis Hospital-Wichita.

Chanute is about 90 miles northwest of Joplin, Mo.

The plane crashed in a field east of Highway 75. Two of the five aboard survived the crash.

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