Airplane crashes into airport building in Wichita, Kansas (PHOTOS, VIDEO), yet the building didn’t collapse demolition style ala’ 911

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Airplane crashes into airport building in Wichita, Kansas (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

An airplane crashed into a two-story building at an airport in Wichita, Kansas early Thursday shortly after takeoff, leaving at least four people dead and five injured.

The 10-seater, twin-engine plane struck a building at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport at around 9:50 a.m. local time Thursday. Eyewitnesses at the scene have since posted photographs on the social media site Twitter of huge plumes of black smoke rising into the sky from the site of the crash.

Ron Blackwell, the chief of the Wichita Fire Department, said during a press conference shortly after 11 a.m. that authorities can confirm two fatalities, and said a search was ongoing. Five people at that time were unaccounted for, Blackwell said, and five had been transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.

That afternoon, the Associated Press reported that the death toll climbed to four.

A local NBC News affiliate reported shortly after that one person is listed critical condition as a result of the incident, and confirmed that the plane in question is a Beechcraft that lost an engine during takeoff, citing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…..MORE HERE

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