A pilot was killed after crashing in the parking lot of a Texas shopping center Tuesday, just feet away from the front door of a popular diner.
The downed single-engine Mooney M20 burst into flames just before 6 p.m. outside of Mama’s Daughter’s Diner and Nail Addiction in the Midway Park neighborhood of Plano, a city 20 miles north of Dallas.
The plane did not land on or collide with anything upon crashing, but the inferno jumped onto a nearby parked car, Plano fire officials said. Luckily, no one was inside the vehicle.
A plane crashed in the parking lot of a Texas shopping center Tuesday, just feet away from the front door of a popular diner. Austin Selkin
The single-engine Mooney M20 burst into flames at 6 p.m. outside of Mama’s Daughter’s Diner and Nail Addiction in the Midway Park neighborhood of Plano, a city 20 miles north of Dallas. FOX 4Only the pilot was on board, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.
The Air Park-Dallas Airport is less than a half mile from the crash site.
The plane had taken off from the single-runway airport just moments before the crash, sources told WFAA.
Witnesses said the plane took a sharp nosedive before plummeting into the parking lot.
Social media posts show the small plane and at least one other vehicle on fire. Austin Selkin
The circumstances around the crash and whether any bystanders were injured remain unclear. FOX 4The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
