In November 2015, a private charter jet crashed into a building in Akron, killing nine. That was the most fatalities in a single Ohio crash since 1970.
In all, there have been 579 fatal plane accidents since 1964 in Ohio, according to the NTSB data.
The Miami Valley's most recent fatal crashes
» Feb. 19, 2017 (Clark County): At least one person was killed in a small plane crash, according to an Ohio Highway Patrol trooper on the scene. Witnesses reported seeing the plane, a Macleod homebuilt fixed wing single-engine experimental plane, crash near a private airstrip at a residence in the 300 block of Titus Avenue. The pilot was the only occupant of the plane and was pronounced dead at the scene.
» Oct. 16, 2016 (Warren County): Two people were killed after a small plane crashed in Warren County on Sunday evening.
» July 22, 2016 (Clark County): Levon King, 81, and his wife Gloria King, 85, died Friday when their experimental aircraft crashed into a muddy cornfield in Harmony Twp.
» Jan. 26, 2016 (Xenia): Joel Lansford, 33, of Fairborn died when his plane crashed into a hillside just before 6 p.m. near the Greene County-Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport.
» Sept. 20, 2014 (Middletown): Jeff Krummen, 40, of West Chester Twp., and Steve Krummen, 49, of Deerfield Twp., died when their amateur-built Manweiler Acro Sport II stunt plane stalled and crashed.
» June 1, 2014 (Middletown): Sarah Rhoads, 24, of Miamisburg, a skydiving company employee, died after she accidentally walked into an operating propeller on an airplane.
» June 22, 2013 (Dayton): Wingwalker Jane Wicker, 46, and pilot Charlie Schwenker, 64, died in a fiery plane crash at the Vectren Dayton Air Show.
» June 9, 2012 (Spring Valley): Roger Flower, 73, of Bellbrook, died after an "experimental aircraft" he built himself crashed south of Xenia.
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