BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WOWO): Authorities have determined that seven people were killed in a plane crash near the Bloomington airport. The plane went down overnight while returning from the NCAA basketball championship game in Indianapolis.
According to the Chicago Tribune, authorities have identified two of the people on board. Terry Stralow, a partner in a popular bar in Bloomington-Normal, and Scott Bittner, the owner of a meat-processing company and the owner of the twin-engine Cessna 414 that crashed.
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No information about the others killed was available, but authorities said everyone on board died.
The plane left the Indianapolis Airport around 11 p.m. Monday and hit heavy fog over central Illinois, authorities said. Around 12:15 a.m., Peoria air traffic control notified the Bloomington airport that it had lost radar contact with the plane, according to the sheriff's office. A search was launched and a Bloomington police officer discovered the wreckage in a field northwest of the airport
