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LEVEL CROSS N.C. - After surviving a plane crash in April of this year and spending 5 months in the hospital, Jimmy Foecking was greeted by friends and members of the community as he returned home today. On April 11th, 2023, Foecking was one of two people in a single-engine Vans RV-12 aircraft that crashed into a hill on the side of US Hwy 421, south of Greensboro Executive Airport in Guilford County just after 11 a.m. According to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the pilot had taken off at 11:03 a.m. and conducted a touch-and-go landing before landing back at the airport and picking up a passenger. At 11:27 a.m. The aircraft took off again and climbed for around 30 seconds, until video surveillance showed the airplane immediately stopped climb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNfVKdqHQs ASHEBORO N.C. - Emergency crews, officials, and investigators are on the scene of a plane crash on US Hwy 421 just outside of Randolph County near the Greensboro Executive Airport. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a single-engine Vans RV-12 aircraft crashed south of Greensboro Executive Airport in Guilford County around 11 a.m. local time Tuesday, April 11th, 2023. The aircraft crashed into a hill on the side of US Hwy 421, near the Monnett Road bridge, just south of the airport, closing the bridge as well as one lane of US Hwy 421 SB. The FAA confirmed that two people were on board. The Guilford County Sheriff Office has confirmed that one person is dead. No information about the second person onboard is curr...

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Survivor of April Plane Crash Returns Home from Hospital

Emergency Crews on Scene of Plane Crash on HWY 421