BREAKING: Plane Crashes Outside Of Tupelo Airport

TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – Tupelo police chief Bart Aguirre tells WCBI News there are no survivors in the private plane crash just north of the Tupelo airport. Tupelo Fire Department officials say the plane, which is registered to a Texas man, left the airport just after 8:30 heading to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Aguirre says four people were on board the plane that crashed on takeoff.

We are told it is a private, 6-passenger airplane.

The Lee County coroner is on the scene.

We’ll have more information on this story as it becomes available.