Plane left Indianapolis and crashed near Bloomington airport after midnight . Among the dead were pilot , business owner , Illinois State director of athletics Aaron Leetch , Wells Fargo employee and Sprint representative . There was fog in the area when the plane , a Cessna 414 , crashed near airport . Illinois State associate head basketball coach Torrey Ward was also killed . - July 4 : A small private airplane carrying two people collided with an aircraft at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago during takeoff from Midway Airport. Ward cryptically tweeted 'My ride to the game was n't bad ' before the tragedy . FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash .
Plane left Indianapolis and crashed near Bloomington airport after midnight . Among the dead were pilot , business owner , Illinois State director of athletics Aaron Leetch , Wells Fargo employee and Sprint representative . There was fog in the area when the plane , a Cessna 414 , crashed near airport . Illinois State associate head basketball coach Torrey Ward was also killed . Terry Stralow , the owner of a bar called the Pub II , also died in the crash . Ward cryptically tweeted 'My ride to the game was n't bad ' before the tragedy . FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash .