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Clare County Cheyenne Crash


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Contact photographer Chuck Slusarczyk Jr

What: Cheyenne Sales & Leasing Piper PA-31T2 Cheyenne IIXL en route from Traverse City, Michigan to Tiffin Ohio
Where: near Clare County Airport
When: DEC 4, 2009, 6:45 p.m.
Who: Pilot
Why: While en route, the flight crashed in Claire county woods.

Witnesses reported the plane out of control but it is not noted if it burst into flames before or after impact. The wreckage was found at 7:21 p.m, a thirty minutes hike into the heavily wooded area north of M-61 and east of Highway 127.

One fatality was reported.

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