MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Troop B Headquarters - 308 Pine Crest Drive - Macon, Missouri 63552
NEWS RELEASE
For further information please contact: Sergeant Brent J. Bernhardt
(660) 385-2132
B15123
December 7, 2015
EMPHASIS: Plane Crash In Chariton County
At approximately 9:15 p.m., on December 6, 2015, Troop B Headquarters received a report from a citizen that a small aircraft had crashed approximately eight miles northeast of Keytesville, Missouri, in Chariton County. Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Chariton County Sheriff’s Department, and emergency rescue personnel responded to the area and located a 1946 year model Cessna 140 single-engine airplane crashed in a hayfield. Both occupants of the aircraft were pronounced dead at the scene by Chariton County Coroner Larry Brashears, and they have been taken to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia, Missouri, pending autopsies. The occupants have been identified as Andrew J. Beautte, 40, of La Plata, Missouri, and Dawn L. Harl, 38, of Des Moines, Iowa. It is believed that Beautte was the pilot of the aircraft.
It is unknown at this time from where the aircraft had taken off or its destination. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration will be on scene sometime on December 7, 2015, to conduct a complete investigation.
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