RUSK, TX — Susan Inkley and Bruce Finch were injured after a twin-engine plane crash that happened in Rusk, Texas on Saturday, October 25th, 2014. The article from The Jacksonville Progress said that the accident happened just before 2:00 Saturday afternoon.
77-year-old Susan Inkley and Bruce Finch were hurt when the plane they were in crashed near the intersection of FM 768 and County Road 1314. Public Safety officials said that the twin-engine aircraft crashed for reasons currently under investigation while flying toward Cherokee County Airport. The news does not specify what caused the plane to crash.
Inkley and Finch were taken by EMS to a nearby hospital where they were being treated for their injuries. The pilot of the plane was identified as Mark Haag, who was not hurt in the accident.
Officials from the Texas Department of Transportation is investigating the accident.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary:
Any kind of plane crashes, big or small, are situations where an independent investigation is very important. The agency that handles every plane crash investigation in the nation is the NTSB, and it usually takes a very, very long time to arrive at answers, not because of incompetence, but because of a massive backlog in cases. Sometimes a year or a year and a half can fall off the calendar during an NTSB investigation. This length of time can be cut significantly shorter by third party investigators with no such backlog. With any kind of accident, people need answers, and having your own investigators do the legwork is going to be much, much faster than relying on a government agency. In addition to getting people answers, it also buys them a significant amount of time to make a decision should a liability claim be necessary – time that would have otherwise elapsed with an NTSB investigation.
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