Pilot did not report emergency in final transmissions before crash near McAlester

<br>(McAlester, Oklahoma-AP) -- An accident investigator says Monday that no emergency was declared by a pilot whose twin-engine airplane crashed near McAlester Regional Airport. <br><br>The crash killed

Monday, December 2nd 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(McAlester, Oklahoma-AP) -- An accident investigator says Monday that no emergency was declared by a pilot whose twin-engine airplane crashed near McAlester Regional Airport.

The crash killed the pilot and four members of his family.

William Gray said in a radio transmission that he was planning to land at the airport and was 10 miles away. He said in a second transmission that he was five miles out.

Tom Little, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said Gray did not say he had a problem.

Killed were: Gray, who was 56 years old; his 53-year-old wife Kathy; their sons Chad, 23, and Chase, 20; and daughter Brooke, 17.

They died Wednesday when their airplane crashed in a pasture west of the airport. The family had been flying from their home in a Dallas suburb to visit relatives in Missouri for the Thanksgiving Day holiday.