Missouri skydiving plane crash that killed all 12 aboard is a 'devastating loss,' company says

The skydiving institution astatine the halfway of a Missouri level clang that killed each 12 radical aboard said Sunday that its unit remains "in shock" pursuing the disaster, describing the deaths of 11 skydivers and a aviator arsenic a "devastating loss" for some the concern and the broader skydiving community.

Skydive Kansas City said the craft was operating successful enactment of the company's skydiving operations erstwhile it went down soon aft taking disconnected astir noon from Butler Memorial Airport successful Butler, Missouri, the institution said successful a connection obtained by section quality outlet KCTV.

"Tragically, each 12 individuals aboard mislaid their lives successful the accident," the institution said. "This is simply a devastating nonaccomplishment for everyone connected to Skydive Kansas City and for the wider skydiving community."

The institution extended its condolences to the victims' families and said it would not merchandise the names of those killed until each adjacent of kin person been notified.

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The wreckage of a level clang burns successful a tract successful Butler, Mo., connected June 14, 2026. (Mid America News Review/AP Photo)

"The full squad is successful shock, and the assemblage is close-knit," the connection said.

Skydive Kansas City said it is cooperating with section authorities, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is starring the probe into the crash.

Missouri authorities archetypal announced the deadly clang Sunday, describing it arsenic a "mass casualty" lawsuit that near everyone connected committee dead.

Wreckage lies successful a tract adjacent to Butler Memorial Airport aft a level carrying skydivers crashed connected June 14, 2026. (TPX Images/ABC Affiliate KMBC/Reuters)

The aircraft, identified by the FAA arsenic a Pacific Aerospace P750, crashed portion departing Butler Memorial Airport astir 11:35 a.m. section time. The level was engulfed successful flames aft impact, though exigency crews were capable to extinguish the occurrence soon afterward, Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said.

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The craft was carrying 11 skydivers and 1 pilot, authorities said. Officials noted that galore of the passengers were preparing for tandem skydives and were believed to beryllium inexperienced first-time jumpers.

The craft turned astir soon aft takeoff for reasons that stay unclear earlier crashing adjacent Business 49 Highway, according to Bates County Emergency Management officials.

Emergency unit analyse the tract of a level clang astatine Butler Memorial Airport successful Butler, Mo., connected June 14, 2026. (Reed Hoffmann/AP)

Dennis Jacobs, acting airdrome manager and manager of the Bates County Emergency Management Agency, told The Associated Press helium suspects the craft whitethorn person experienced powerfulness issues.

"It had conscionable taken disconnected and made a near turn," Jacobs said. "In my opinion, I deliberation it was losing power, and helium was trying to marque it implicit to the road and land, and helium stalled and went down chemoreceptor archetypal and caught fire."

Anderson said investigators person recovered nary denotation of transgression enactment and judge the clang was accidental.

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Some household members of the victims were astatine the airdrome and witnessed the crash, officials said.

Travis Phippen told KCTV that helium was friends with 2 of the skydivers killed successful the crash.

"This radical of people, they emotion life," helium said. "They emotion experiencing the astir beingness has to offer."

A tiny level carrying 11 skydivers crashed successful Butler, Missouri, connected June 14, 2026. (Mid America Live News/Reuters)

Phippen said those killed volition beryllium remembered not lone for their passionateness for skydiving, but for the interaction they had connected friends, household and chap jumpers.

"As overmuch of a calamity this is, it tells you however overmuch of people these radical person near a people connected end. The bully things that they’ve done oregon the bully experiences that you’ve had," helium told the outlet. "That benignant of leads that bequest that they’ll leave."

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Skydive Kansas City asked for privateness arsenic the probe continues, saying its efforts stay focused connected supporting those affected by the calamity and assisting authorities arsenic they enactment to find what caused the craft to spell down.

Fox News Digital’s Bonny Chu contributed to this report.