Skydiving Plane Crash in Missouri Kills 12

Overview

• A single‑engine Pacific Aerospace 750XL used for skydiving crashed near Butler, Missouri on Sunday, killing all 12 people aboard — 11 parachutists and the pilot.
• The aircraft had departed Butler Memorial Airport, returned to the area for unknown reasons, and came down near a roadway, where media footage showed wreckage in a field and on the road.
• Local crews and the Missouri State Highway Patrol responded, extinguished fires at the scene and closed nearby roads while recovery work proceeded.
• The FAA identified the plane in records as a 2010 Pacific Aerospace 750XL, and both the FAA and the NTSB have been dispatched to investigate the accident.
• The crash occurred about 96–100 kilometers south of Kansas City two days before a scheduled World Cup match there, and officials have not yet released any findings on cause or contributing factors.