Six killed, including child, in Wisconsin aircraft crash

A small aircraft went down in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, October 14, killing six people aboard, among them a child. WFIN reported that the plane was carrying five adults and one child and had been in contact with air traffic control before it crashed into a wooded area. The Piper PA-46 was returning from Kenosha to Menomonie when it crashed in the Town of Dellona in Sauk County, the Sauk County Sheriff's Office said. Around 9:31 p.m. Tuesday, authorities received several reports of a downed aircraft and sent emergency crews to the Park Lane area, where responders located the wreckage in a heavily wooded section west of Herwig Road. Officials said all six occupants were found dead at the scene. Their names have not been made public. Investigators are examining what was communicated between the aircraft and a nearby air traffic control tower before the crash and whether weather conditions in the area were a factor. "We know that they had contact with the tower prior to the crash, and investigators are looking into that today to find out what that communication was," Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister told FOX6 Milwaukee. Meister said it was still not clear who owned the plane, though he confirmed it was not a commercial aircraft. The sheriff's office said no buildings were damaged and no one on the ground was injured.