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Seaplane crashes into Portage River in Erie Township, knocks down power line
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ERIE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a crash including a small plane Saturday afternoon.
Troopers say a call about the crash came in around 4:13 p.m., saying the plane had crashed into the Portage River off of Harbor Road.
Officials say the Cessna 206 was attempting to take off on the Portage River when it struck a power line and lost control, crashing into the river.
Pilot James Lenardson and passenger Leo Eggert exited the plane and swam to shore as the plane sunk, troopers say.
An Ohio Edison power line was knocked down, with one part laying in the river and another across a cottage at the Resort T Erie Landing, officials say.
Troopers say the 72-year-old pilot and 67-year-old passenger both sustained minor injuries and were transported the Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton.
Troopers do believe alcohol or drugs are believed to be a factor, but the crash remains under investigation.
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Ohio plane crash claims 3 lives during emergency landing, mechanical failure suspected – Times of India
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According to the Ohio state highway patrol post in Trumbull County, which received notification of the incident shortly after 7 pm on Saturday, three individuals on board the plane, including the pilot and two passengers, lost their lives in the crash.
The families of the victims have been informed, and their names will be disclosed at a later time, as said by an official.
“The crash came after an airplane not associated with the air reserve station at the airport came in for an unscheduled emergency landing,” Anthony Trevena, executive director of the Western Reserve Port Authority, told WKBN-TV.
The station also reported that a mechanical failure is believed to be the cause of the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board will be conducting an investigation into the incident, as said by the FAA in a statement.
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Where refugees in Ohio are arriving from
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During the past five decades, the U.S. has resettled over 3 million refugees, making it one of the leading countries for finding new homes for people fleeing violence, persecution, and war.
In 2021, then-President Donald Trump lowered the annual cap of refugees that could be admitted into the country to 15,000. Even as the Biden administration has raised the ceiling to 125,000, the annual number of refugees arriving in the U.S. didn’t immediately bounce back to pre-Trump administration levels. The numbers are increasing though, with over 25,000 refugees arriving in the U.S. in the 2022 fiscal year, twice the 2021 total.
Refugee arrivals during the 2023 fiscal year dramatically outpaced the prior two years, reaching over 60,000 from October 2022 to September 2023.
In June 2024, the greatest number of refugees admitted by the U.S. came from Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Congo. Each nation faces a unique set of circumstances that can make their citizens unsafe if they stay in their home country.
In Venezuela, over 7.5 million people have left the country due to extreme inflation, violence, food and medicine scarcity, and other factors. Most have resettled in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Afghan refugees have been fleeing to neighboring countries for decades, especially to Pakistan and Iran, which combined host over 8 million Afghans. For the last three decades, Congo, also called the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been struggling with a series of civil wars and internal battles that have left millions of people displaced, both internally and externally, with many people fleeing to neighboring countries.
Stacker referenced data from the Refugee Processing Center to compile statistics on the number of refugees and their countries of origin resettled in Ohio in June 2024. Countries with only one refugee since October 2023 are not included.
June refugee statistics
Countries where refugees arrived from in June
To Ohio:
#1. Congo: 42
#2. Venezuela: 34
#3. Somalia: 25
#4. Sudan: 24
#5. Afghanistan: 16
#6. Syria: 11
#7. Iraq: 5
#8. Guatemala: 4
#9. Ethiopia: 2
#9. Honduras: 2
#11. Nepal: 1
#11. Senegal: 1
To the U.S. as a whole:
#1. Venezuela: 1,163
#2. Afghanistan: 1,093
#3. Congo: 615
#4. Syria: 422
#5. Somalia: 403
States that accepted the most refugees in June:
#1. Texas: 619
#2. California: 370
#3. New York: 355
#4. Florida: 339
#5. Arizona: 243
Read on to see the countries that Ohio has accepted the most refugees from since the start of the fiscal year in October 2023.
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3 dead in Ohio plane crash
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Three people were killed in a plane crash in Trumbull County, Ohio, on Friday night.
The plane crashed just after 7 p.m. at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, CBS news affiliate WOIO-TV reported. When first responders arrived at the scene near Route 11 and King Graves Road, they found a multi-engine aircraft that crashed near a runway, the TV station reported.
Law enforcement reportedly believes a mechanical failure forced an emergency landing before the crash.
The aircraft had one pilot and two passengers. All three people died. The victims have not been identified.
It was not immediately known where the plane took off from or where it was scheduled to land.
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash.
Trumbull County is in northeast Ohio.
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