The families of four of the five passengers killed when an executive jet crashed while trying to land at Thomson-McDuffie County Airport in February have sued multiple defendants in Fulton County Superior Court, including the airport authority, its municipal owners and the Georgia Power Co., which owned a power pole and lines the plane hit.
One pilot walked away and the other suffered serious injuries after the Beechcraft Premier 1 crashed at about 8 p.m. on Feb. 20. According to the complaints and contemporaneous news accounts, the plane was arriving from Nashville's John C. Tune Airport and preparing to touch down when the pilots aborted the landing to circle around for another attempt. Then it struck a tree and an unlighted 60-foot concrete utility pole about a quarter-mile from the end of the runway, shearing off a wing and catching fire before it crashed into the ground, where most of the wreckage burned.
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