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HOUSTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A pilot was killed on Wednesday after his single-engine plane crashed into a hangar at a municipal airport in Bentonville, a city in the northwestern part of the U.S state of Arkansas.
A spokesman for the Bentonville Police Department said that the crash, which happened Wednesday morning during take off, killed 70-year-old Rex L. Grimsley, the only person on board, according to the website of ArkansasOnline.
No other persons on the ground were injured, nor any other aircraft was damaged in the incident.
The airport has been closed, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators are rushing to the scene to determine the cause of the crash.
The aircraft, a 1983 Beechcraft Bonanza, could carry six passengers. The airport, which houses 41 single engine and two multiple engine aircraft, has eight hangars, including two owned by Bentonville.
Bentonville, the 10th-largest city in Arkansas, is the headquarters of the world's largest retailer Walmart.
