Officials spend Wednesday investigating plane crash while pilot fights for life

First responders prepare a victim in Tuesday’s plane crash for transport to a Columbus hospital.

Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Bureau spent Wednesday combing through the wreckage of an airplane crash in a remote area near Dadeville, searching for clues into what caused the plane to go down.

The crash, which occurred just before 1 p.m. Tuesday, claimed the life 66-year-old Jeannette Carol Currier of Daleville and her husband who was the pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza is clinging to life.