Plante says maintenance crews swept and reconditioned the runway and the airport was officially reopened just after noon.
The process of removing the cargo plane that crashed Friday while landing at Charleston's Yeager Airport is slated to begin as early as Monday, according to airport officials.
Yeager's airport remained closed Friday morning and a state of emergency was declared for the airport, which services both cargo planes and passenger airlines.
The crew of a propeller plane carrying UPS cargo made no distress call before the small aircraft landed hard enough to gouge the runway and break into pieces on Friday, a federal investigator said.
After the plane is removed, Clean Harbor, Yeager's environmental contractor, will remediate the site to clear fuel and hydraulic fluid.
Yeager Airport spokesman Mike Plante said the 330 twin-engine turbo plane went off the runway Friday morning.
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'We are aware of an incident in Charleston Wv, involving a small feeder aircraft carrying UPS packages.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper confirmed the deaths.
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Plante says the Air Cargo Carriers plane departed from Louisville, Kentucky, and was trying to land when it went off the runway and down a steep, wooded hillside.
Plante said that workers were working from the top and the bottom of the hill to reach the crash using chainsaw to hack their way through the brush.
The initial witness mark on the runway is about 340 feet from the runway threshold, according to English.
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