Forsyth County Cororner Lauren W. McDonald III has confirmed that Don Hall, 45, and David Schorr, 40, both of Cumming were the two who died when an experimental plane crashed on a street in a Forysth County neighborhood last night. Hall was the owner and builder of the plane, and was the pilot at the time of the crash. He is a member of a team that does precision flying in the aircraft.
No one on the ground was injured, even though the plane landed 70 feet from one woman’s yard and across the street from Deer Creek Shores Presbyterian Church, which was holding services, neighbors said.
“We could hear a small plane and it was spiraling, pointed straight down,” one witness, who watched the plane crash from a houseboat on Lake Lanier, told News/Talk WSB. “It disappeared in some trees, but there was no explosion.”
Hall and Schorr were the only two people on board the plane, Division Chief Jason Shivers with the Forsyth County Fire Department said.
The plane crashed around 7:45 p.m. Thursday off Shady Grove Road near the intersection with Lanier Drive, near Lake Lanier.
"It didn't hit any homes, it didn't hit anything," said the witness, who did not want to give her name. "It just crashed in the street."
The crash blocked the busy road until midnight after the wreckage has been moved to the side of the road.
The plane was an RV7, an experimental single-engine plane. Investigators from the FAA and NTSB are looking over the wreckage and the crash scene.