Two killed in plane crash near Daleville

DALEVILLE, INDIANA - A small plane crashed into a field during foggy conditions late Sunday night, killing a Cicero couple. <br> <br> Authorities identified the victims as Dennis G. Mann, 52, and Elaine H. McCormack, 52, from the community near Morse Resorvoir about five miles north of Noblesville. <br> <br> Mann was piloting the 1974 twin-engine Piper Navajo, Indiana State Police said in a news release Monday afternoon. <br> <br> The plane was en route from LaGrange, Ga., to Anderson when it crashed about 10 miles east of the Anderson airport in rural Delaware County, said Adam Fisher, a trooper at the Redkey post. <br> <br> Federal Aviation Administration officials said the plane was landing on instruments when it crashed during approach between one and two miles from the airport, The Star Press of Muncie reported. <br> <br> An experienced pilot, Mann was the owner of an aircraft charter business based at the Anderson airport, the newspaper said. He also owned American Concrete in Indianapolis. <br> <br> Bill Brumfield, who lives near the crash site about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis, said the plane flew just above he and his wife&#39;s home before crashing into a nearby field. <br> <br> ``All of a sudden we said, `That plane was sure awful low,&#39; and in about five seconds we heard a big explosion back behind the barn. It was nothing but a fireball,&#39;&#39; Brumfield told Indianapolis television station WTHR. <br> <br> Two dogs were pulled from the wreckage and were treated by an Anderson veterinarian before being transferred to Indianapolis for surgery, The Star Press said.

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