Below is what Kentucky State Police posted on their Facebook page...
The Kentucky State Police are responding to a report of a plane crash near the area of KY 810 South in the Suwanee community of Lyon County At approximately 6:30 pm CST, a 911 call was received from a Lyon County resident. The caller told police that a 7-year-old female had walked to his home reporting that she had been involved in a plane crash. The juvenile was in distress and was transported to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
At the time of this release, a crash site has not been located, however; FAA Memphis Center has confirmed a distress call from a private aircraft in the vicinity of reported crash. At this time, the Kentucky State Police, Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, and multiple fire and rescue units are in the area conducting a search. The Federal Aviation Administration has been contacted and are also assisting. Additional updates will be sent as they become available.
UPDATE on Plane Crash: (Eddyville, KY) –*************UPDATE***************** Search crews have located the wreckage of a small plane in a wooded area off of Buckberry Trail which runs off of KY 810 South. Investigators on scene confirm (4) fatalities at the crash site. The fatalities account for the pilot and remaining passengers. Names of the deceased are withheld pending identification and notification of NOK.
Kathleen Bergen of the FAA says air traffic controllers lost contact with a Piper PA-34-200T as it was flying over Marshall County in the southwestern part of the state. The pilot had reported engine problems.
Daily Mail can now reveal that the plane was registered to Dr Alan Froehling, a neuromusucular orthopedic from Mt Vernon, Illinois.
Larry Wilkins, 71, told NBC News in a phone interview late Friday night that the ‘brave’ 7-year-old came knocking on his door at around 6.30pm after emerging from the plane wreckage.
‘She was bleeding pretty bad, her legs were bleeding, her face had a bloody nose,’ the man described. ‘She was barefoot, only had one sock on.’
Mr Wilkins said the child told him her parents were killed in the crash, and that their plane had come to rest upside down.
'She asked if she could stay here,' Wilkins recalled.
The man immediately called 911 and then went to work cleaning up the bloodied girl with a washcloth. When police arrived, the 7-year-old was so shaken up she could hardly make herself understood.
‘I felt so sorry for her, tears come my eyes,’ said Wilkins.
According to Keith Todd with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the aircraft landed deep in a heavily wooded, remote area off of Buckberry Trail
