“Our assumption is there was some attempt by aircraft to make an emergency landing of some sort on the roadway,” Shivers told Jennings.

“I’m so thankful it didn’t hit a house, you know? Whoever was on there actually avoided all the houses in our subdivision,” Simonds said.

The NTSB and FAA are on the ground beginning their investigation. There is no word from them on what caused the plane to go down.

Channel 2 Action News looked up the tail number of the plane and knows that it is registered to an area flight school.

We're holding off on saying which school because we know officials are still working to notify next of kin.