Aircraft Impacted House

Investigators are traveling to the scene of a small plane crash Friday morning in Cumming, GA, that claimed the lives of the two men onboard.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told the Associated Press the Cessna 150 evidently impacted a house nose-first, resulting in significant damage to the aircraft but apparently little serious damage to the home. No one was inside the house at the time.

Forsyth County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Frank Huggins said the identities of the victims have not been released, other than to say the pilot was a former commercial pilot.

"It nose-dived into a backyard and then flipped over on the side yard of an adjacent home," Huggins told reporters.

Huggins said the plane took off from Mathis Airport (GA27), located about 35 miles north of Atlanta, and was heading to nearby Gainesville. The plane went down about a mile from Mathis Field.

It is not yet known what caused the two-seat Cessna (file photo of type, right) to go down.

"It's been pretty windy up here today, and that could have been the cause, but that's just conjecture on my part," Huggins said. "According to witnesses, the plane went down immediately after takeoff."

FAA records show the 1971 C150-L, N17515Q, was registered to Billy Canup of McDonough, GA.

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