Georgia - Investigators say that a Cessna 310 piloted by Atlanta resident James Wardlaw, 58, took a "steep turn" before crashing into a home at roughly 230 mph in Lawrenceville, killing him and Judith Kirchner, 62, in the home at the time.
Her husband was in the back upstairs but managed his way out amid the heat and thick smoke. The plane, flying from the north, first clipped his neighbor's tree, then hit his garage; the cars and an adjacent wall were destroyed.
Airports in Atlanta and Gwinnett reported no distress signals sent from Wardlaw, who was going to visit his six daughters in Tennessee. A final determination on the crash's cause is still in the works.
