Pilot killed after small cargo plane crashes in Texas

One particular person changed into once killed in the shatter of a shrimp cargo airplane in south Texas, authorities acknowledged.

Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with the one-engine Cessna 208 rapidly after 8 p.m. Monday approach Victoria, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Houston, per theFederal Aviation Administration. The FAA acknowledged the wreckage of the airplane changed into once affirm in a discipline about 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) north of Victoria.

The Texas Division of Public Safety acknowledged the pilot changed into once killed in the shatter.

Houston TV web online page KHOU reported that the airplane had been diminished in size to prefer UPS packages. The firm acknowledged in an announcement that the shatter failed to involve a UPS airplane or workers and that the airplane had been traveling from Victoria to Houston.

Authorities didn’t straight away free up the pilot’s name.