All seven people on board were killed when a Cessna 414 light twin crashed into a soybean field near Bloomington, Illinois, at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday. Conditions were reportedly foggy and rainy at the time. The flight had departed Indianapolis just after the NCAA basketball championship game, and was heading for Central Illinois Regional Airport, in Bloomington.NTSB investigator Todd Fox said on Tuesday evening the plane was cleared to land at Bloomington but appears to have made a turn away from approaching the runway just before the crash, for reasons that are not clear.
Two of those on board were members of the athletic department at Illinois State University. The Cessna owner’s son was on board, and the others were his guests.The ATP-rated pilot, age 51, had about 12,000 hours total time, Fox said.
