Private Jet Goes Off Runway And Crashes Into House, Luckily Without Hurting Anyone

A Kentucky resident received an unexpected visitor when an airplane crashed into the side of her home, reports KFVS 12. Luckily nobody appears to have been hurt within the crash; the girl contained in the house was advantageous, as was the pilot, who was the one person on board the aircraft. Many plane crashes are total disasters, even with small planes, but sometimes people escape relatively unharmed.

Details are fuzzy right now because the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are still investigating what caused this crash, however the Graves County Sheriff’s Office has this to say:

Preliminary reports indicate that the aircraft had landed and the pilot was unable to get the aircraft stopped at the top of the runway. The aircraft continued through a grassy area, through a fringe fence, across KY 58, after which right into a residential structure. The residence was occupied by the resident but she was not injured.

Photos from the Sheriff’s Office show the chain link fence the plane dragged behind it. In accordance with Google Maps, the overrun area provided a roughly 600-foot buffer between the top of the runway and Highway 58. A row of homes lies beyond, certainly one of which was the home the plane crashed into.

While rolling across the grass, the pilot was likely not on an iPad and could have tried to show right to avoid the home, or at the very least prevent a direct impact. The nose of the aircraft is unbroken, which might be why the pilot escaped without injury. It looks just like the left wing hit the home as an alternative, with the shock causing bricks on the side and back corner of the home to fall off. We haven’t got a great view of the purpose of impact or what happened to the left wing. We also don’t see any evidence of a hearth after the crash, which is great news for all involved.

In accordance with FAA records, the airplane is a 2013 Cessna 525C, a twin-engine business jet. It’s registered to Stonecrest Capital, LLC, of South Fulton, Tennessee. The plane will not be currently available for public tracking through FlightAware, which is sensible considering the continuing crash investigation, so we do not understand how it got here to be at Mayfield-Graves County Airport.