Cirrus Crashes Into Parking Lot, Three Dead

A Cirrus SR20 crashed Thursday near Hobby Airport in Texas, killing all three on board. The aircraft was on a third attempt to land at Hobby when it crashed into a car in the parking lot of a hardware store about 1:12 p.m., according to ABC13 in Houston. The Cirrus was high on its first approach, and went around while communicating with the tower. The second approach also was too high. During the third landing attempt, the aircraft hit the ground nose-down as the tower controller repeated an urgent warning to "straighten up," according to the station.

No one was in the vehicle when the airplane struck it and no other injuries were reported. A Houston Chronicle report quoted an NTSB investigator saying that "after exiting the go-around maneuver, the aircraft was seen to descend suddenly, nose first into the parking lot of the Ace Hardware." The three on board were from Oklahoma and included the pilot, her husband and brother-in-law, according to ABC13.