Pilot in fatal plane crash reported losing power before landing - News Summed Up

Pilot in fatal plane crash reported losing power before landing


According to the report, Robertson told air traffic control that he had the Greenville Municipal Airport in sight and intended to land on runway 14. - Witness to fatal crashThe witness said in the report that there was no smoke trailing the airplane and the landing gear was retracted. The plane that crashed in rural Maine on July 30 was this Piper Smith-Aerostar 600, a twin-engine propeller-driven light transport craft. Instead of landing, the airplane continued to fly over the centre of the airport, the pilot said. The airplane was at such a severe angle, the pilot said, that he could see the entire top of the airplane.


Source: CBC News August 18, 2018 18:56 UTC



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