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Plane Crashes in Nashville


pictured: Beech Bonanza
What: twin-engine Beech Baron propeller plane en route from Arkansas to Nashville International Airport
Where: 100 yards from a cluster of a half-dozen homes in a rural area on Nashville’s northwestern edge, at the intersection of Laws Road and Whites Creek Pike in Joelton.
When: November 24, 2008 10:40 a.m.
Who: The crash killed the three people aboard, Greg Secrest, 67, the pilot; Rodney (Nick) Tillman, 49, and his wife, Rebecca Ann Tillman, 42, all from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Why: Witnesses heard the plane circling, then an explosion. The plane spiraled counterclockwise as it fell from the sky. The plane was too damaged to identify

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