A plane crash in Arkansas on Wednesday has left a group of five coworkers dead.
The five individuals on board were part of the Little Rock-based environmental consulting firm CTEH and were taking off from the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration tells PEOPLE in a statement, en route to John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Ohio.
They were traveling to assist with Monday’sfactory explosion near Oakwood, Ohio, reportedABC News, that left one person dead and multiple individuals injured. Their twin-engine plane crashed a mile south of the Arkansas airport.
“We are incrediblysaddened to report the loss of our Little Rock colleagues,” CTEH senior vice president Dr. Paul Nony said in a statement to NBC News affiliate KARK. “We ask everyone to keep the families of those lost and the entire CTEH team in their thoughts and prayers.”
The company did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
While Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Cody Burk confirmed to reporters in a press conference near the scene that as of “right now, there are no survivors that we can find,” KARK reported, he added that the weather in the area affected the investigation into figuring out the cause behind the Beechcraft BE20 plane’s crash.
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According to KTHV,wind gusts were reportedly as high as 40 mphat the airport during the time of the crash.
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