Small Plane Crashes Into North Carolina Restaurant

CLAYTON, N.C. (AP) – A small plane crashed into a restaurant Friday morning.

Officials had no word on possible casualties. The plane plowed through front entrance of McCall’s BBQ & Seafood Restaurant around 10 a.m., witnesses said. “The front is completely gone,” said Rhonda Hobbs, who lives behind the restaurant.

“The plane is all the way on the inside.” Messages left by The Associated Press with fire and police officials in Johnston County were not immediately returned. Gordon Heldebrant, who manages a restaurant near the site of the accident, told WRAL-TV that a small, single-engine plane flew over his business before it crashed into the front of McCall’s.

Hobbs said she was inside her home when the crash shook the house. Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for FAA in Atlanta, said she did not have any detailed information about the plane but said it “was a smaller airplane, flying low, out of controlled airspace.”

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