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Cirrus Crashes in Gary

What: Gandy Air LLC Cirrus SR22 GTS G3 Turbo en route from Smyrna to Gary
Where: A mile SE of the Gary Chicago Int. Airport
When: Oct 3, 2012, 11:00 a.m.
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: A plane that took off from Smyrna, Tenn. General Airport crashed for unknown reasons in a wooded area about 400 feet from the Lighthouse Charter School in Gary. The bodies of the two men aboard were retrieved from the scene of the crash around 5:35 p.m.

No one reported a distress signal. A witness in Gary heard the plane’s engine “sputter” before the plane crashed. Many of the 650 students of West Gary Lighthouse Charter School heard the plane come down.

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