 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A small plane lost power after takeoff and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to a Kansas airport Thursday, killing at least four people, injuring at least five others and igniting a fire that sent up towering plumes of black smoke that could be seen for miles around Wichita, officials and witnesses said. Four more people remained unaccounted for hours after the crash. PHOTOS: Plane crashes at Mid-Continent Airport 
 
 KSN has confirmed from the FAA that a twin engine Beechcraft King Air lost an engine on takeoff from Wichita’s Mid-Continent airport and crashed into the two-story FlightSafety International building located on South Airport Road. We are in the process of trying to determine if all the employees and visitors who may have been in the building are accounted for,” said Wichita Fire Chief Ron Blackwell. "We are used to planes flying straight with the runway and this plane just didn't look like it was lined up and was way too low for the direction it was going," Papacek said, adding that he drove to the crash site to see what was happening and saw the building fire raging.
– At least four people are dead after a small plane crashed at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport this morning, sending up "towering plumes of black smoke that could be seen for miles," in the words of AP. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air reported losing engine power just after takeoff, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro, who says the plane hit a building on airport property while trying to return to the runway. KSN reports that four are dead and four others are missing. The pilot, identified as Mark Goldstein, was among those killed. “He was an air traffic controller who retired less than a year ago and became a contract pilot, and he would contract his services to different airplane owners and operators," says an acquaintance at a local aviation company. “He talked to the tower before he crashed. They knew his voice."