The crash happened during takeoff and was reported about 11:27 a.m., Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said in a news conference Sunday afternoon. A pilot and 11 skydivers were killed.

A plane carrying 12 people crashed near Butler Memorial Airport in Bates County, Missouri.

Twelve people are dead after a plane crashed in Butler, Missouri; about an hour south of the Kansas City metro. A plane ...

Twelve people aboard a skydiving plane, including the pilot, were killed after the aircraft crashed in Missouri, according to authorities.

To the neighbors bordering the Butler Memorial Airport, the fall and crash of the tiny aircraft and the death of 12 people on ...

The Indiana State men’s basketball team made it official Tuesday — the Sycamores will play an exhibition preseason contest at Butler and a nonconference regular-season contest at Kansas. Indiana State ...

Families, friends and colleagues are paying tribute to their loved ones who died in a Missouri skydiving plane crash on ...