5 dead after small jet crashes in eastern Georgia

ASSOCIATED PRESS

THOMSON: An official says five people are dead and two injured after a small jet ran off the end of a runway and crash at an airport in eastern Georgia.

Thomson-McDuffie County Sheriff Logan Marshall says the jet

carrying seven people crashed after 8 p.m. Wednesday. Logan says the two survivors were taken to area hospitals and their conditions were not known. He says the identities of those killed is being withheld pending notification of family members.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an email that the Hawker Beechcraft 390/Premier I crashed around 8:30 p.m. at the Thomson-McDuffie County Airport, about 30 miles west of Augusta