12 dead after plane full of sky divers crashes near Kansas City

Eleven skydivers and their pilot died in a plane crash Sunday in Missouri after the aircraft made a sudden turn in midair.

The private plane had left  Butler Memorial Airport  around 11:30 a.m. local time before turning around for an unknown reason near Business 49 Highway and then crashing shortly afterward, FOX4 reported.

Wreckage of a plane smoking in a grassy field with emergency responders nearby.
12 people were killed Sunday when a plane crashed in Kansas City.

Everyone on board perished.

It was not clear if any skydivers may have jumped from the doomed plane before it crashed.

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