Cirrus employee killed in Texas plane crash identified as Murfreesboro resident

A Knoxville-based Cirrus Aircraft employee who died Thursday night in a plane crash has been identified as Christopher Jensen, 31, of Murfreesboro.

Jensen was in a Cirrus SR-22 that took off from McGhee Tyson Airport and crashed on the way to David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport near Spring, Texas, at around 5 p.m. local time, according to officials with the Federal Aviation Administration.

The other occupants of the plane were identified by a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson as Kim Hazelwood, 56, of Livingston, Texas, and David Stoneking, 67, of Spring. They were taken to a local hospital.

An official from the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed the plane crashed on its approach to the airport. A preliminary report will likely be completed in about three weeks but the full investigation report, including the cause of the crash, can take up to a year.

Cirrus, a Minnesota-based company, recently underwent a major expansion to its Knoxville campus, adding three 12,000-square-foot airplane hangars to its facility next to McGhee Tyson Airport.

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