What happened
While in flight, a passenger on board the aircraft used a cellular telephone to contact an acquaintance working at a curio shop situated next to an interstate highway. The passenger notified the acquaintance that the aircraft would be flying over the shop's location.
The aircraft arrived over the area and continued traveling in an easterly direction at a low altitude past the curio shop. Shortly after the occupants of the aircraft and the acquaintance exchanged waves, the airplane struck a north-south oriented power line that spanned across the highway. The power line was positioned approximately 33 feet above ground level.
Following the collision with the severed line, the crew lost control of the aircraft. The plane crashed approximately 480 feet from the acquaintance at the shop.