Seven people on a jumping trip jumped out of a small plane right before it crashed in a Missouri field on Saturday, according to federal officials.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told Fox News Digital in a statement that the single-engine Cessna U206C crashed near Butler Memorial Airport around 1 p.m.
Not much information was released right away about what happened before the crash.
The agency said that early information shows the plane was on a “skydiving mission,” and that all of the passengers and the pilot got out of the plane before it crashed.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Fox News Digital that there were seven people on board the plane during the trip.
The Bates County Sheriff’s Office said that the pilot, who had jumped out of the plane, was found in an airport building. KCTV reported that the six people also jumped out of the plane before it crashed.
From there, paramedics treated the captain and the other people on board before letting them go, according to the sheriff’s office.
First responders found the plane’s wreckage in a hayfield east of the airport’s runways. The sheriff’s office said the plane was a “total loss.”
Investigators from the NTSB will get the wreckage and take it to a different location to look at it more closely.
