This has been in the local news the past couple of days.
A plane crashed into Toledo Bend Reservoir in Sabine County Tuesday afternoon. No survivors had been found by 9:30 p.m., more than five hours after the crash was reported, Sabine County Sheriff's Office said. A dispatcher with the Sheriff's Office said the plane went down into the lake close to Indian Mounds Recreation Area. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said air traffic put out a notice that the Cirrus SR22 aircraft was overdue just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. At about 4 p.m., a local department got a 911 call from a witness saying that a plane went down in the lake. Herwig says that the plane was en route from Tupelo, Miss., to David Wayne Hooks Airport in Spring, Texas, near Houston.
The Sheriff's Office said it could not confirm how many people were on board. He said the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating. Herwig said the plane is owned by McAir LLC of West Memphis, Ark. Toledo Bend is on the Texas-Louisiana border. No Louisiana law enforcement agencies were working with the search and rescue.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials say search teams have discovered human body parts among the wreckage of a fixed wing single engine 2006 CIRRUS SR22 that crashed Tuesday afternoon in East Texas. The remains have been taken to Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill.
Fifty-four-year-old Daniel McIntire of Humble, Texas, George McFadden of New York and 34-year-old Heather Hardin of Pecan Island Louisiana all died in the crash. The three are business partners working for Crescent Directional Drilling out of Houston. The companies chief operating officer, Michael Torres, said that McIntire, who was piloting the plane, was the chief financial officer for the company and McFadden was the companies principal owner but was not involved in the day to day operations. A Texas Department of Public Safety operator said witnesses a plane sputtering, but it was obscured by clouds. The plane then broke through the clouds and hit the lake nose first. A dispatcher with the Sabine County Sheriff's Office says the plane went down close to the Indian Mounds Recreation Area. The Sabine County Sheriff's Office spent most of Tuesday evening sorting through the wreckage of the plane that crashed in the Toledo Bend Reservoir, finally calling off the search due to darkness and thunderstorms in the area. The search resumed at sunrise Wednesday morning. A spokesperson with the regional FAA office says air traffic controllers sent out a bulletin that the plane was missing about 3:55 Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after, they received a 9-1-1 telephone call saying a plane had crashed into the Toledo Bend Reservoir. Multiple agencies were involved in the recovery effort, as search and rescue reportedly set up headquarters in the Indian Mounds community, East of Hemphill off of FM 3382. The plane, reportedly an SR22, is listed as belonging to MCAIR LLC of West Memphis, Arkansas. It was traveling from Tupelo, Mississippi on its way to David Wayne Hooks Airport in the Houston area. An NTSB official said the plane traveled in a straight arrow direction for an hour and a half with contact with an FAA tower before taking a nose dive into the water. They say thay is very unusual and something they will be looking into as they continue to investigate.Investigators also say the plane was equipped with a parachute that was never deployed.