LANSING, MI — A plane that crashed near Lansing’s Capitol Region International Airport in 2019 killing five people on board was flying to slow on final approach when it struck the ground.
A National Transportation Safety Board report concludes the Socata TBM 700 C2 was also overweight and out of balance when it crashed into a grassy field just west of the airport’s landing field.
The plane was carrying a group of Indiana-based engineering contractors who were working on a project for the Lansing Board of Water and Light at the time of the accident.
The five people who were killed in the crash were:
- Pilot Joel Stewart Beavins, 48 of Franklin, Ind.
- Timothy Joe Clark, 67, of Franklin, Ind., a pilot-rated companion of the pilot.
- John Thomas Lowe, 51, of Greenwood, Ind.
- Neil Alan Sego, 46, of Trafalgar, Ind.
- Zechariah Eugene Bennett, 27, of Plainfield, Ind.
A sixth passenger, Aaron Levi Blackford, 42, of Frankton, Ind., managed to survive the crash but the man suffered serious injuries.
