Friday, September 28th, 2018 — The coroner said two people died after a plane crash at the Greenville Downtown Airport Thursday afternoon and officials asked people to avoid the area due to a Hazmat situation. Witnesses nearby said the plane was broken in half at the edge of Airport Road and the white fence surrounding the airport. A spokesman for the police department said the jet went off the runway around 1:39 p.m. Airport Director Joe Frasher said the plane landed on the runway and then, for unknown reasons, could not stop. The plane continued off the runway, across a grassy area, down an embankment, and crashed at the edge of the road.