LONG VIEW, N.C. — A plane crash Tuesday evening next to a house in Long View sent four people to local hospitals with varying severity of injuries.
The mangled single-engine Beechcraft was taking off from Hickory Regional Airport with four people on board — officials were not releasing names at the scene — when it fell. Three of the passengers were taken by ambulance to different hospitals and the fourth was airlifted to the Charlotte area.
The initial call came in about 5:15 p.m. The caller said a plane crashed into his yard.
Marc Bailey was at the scene a few hours after the crash was reported. He said he saw from his office window the plane taxi off the runway. Bailey, a pilot himself, said everything looked fine at take off.
Moments later, Kristy Hammonds said she heard the plane crash into a wooded area next to a house at 3710 First Ave. NW. Hammonds lives across the street from where the accident happened. One of the plane’s wings was torn completely off and the fuselage was scrunched and ripped apart.
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Terri Byers, a spokeswoman for the Hickory Fire Department, could not confirm at the scene why the airplane went down. The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the wreck, she said, which could start as early as Wednesday.
The end of Hickory’s runway is about half a mile from where the plane ended up. It was so close that other planes could be seen taking off from the same runway. The father of one of the passengers said the plane that crashed was en route to the Greenville-Spartanburg airport when the engine failed.
Several different departments responded to the call, including Catawba County EMS, Long View Fire Department, Long View Police Department, Hickory Fire Department and Burke County EMS.
The plane is owned by Jayson Scott Jarvis, according to the FAA’s website. A phone message for him was not returned Tuesday night. Jarvis recently received “inclusion in the prestigious FAA Airmen Certification Database,” according to an online report. Jarvis is listed as a "certified registered nurse anesthetist" in Hickory on multiple websites.

