FlyingWay
3rd Feb 2008, 06:29
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) -- Federal investigators say it could be days before they make preliminary determinations about what caused a private plane to crash while trying to land at the Mount Airy airport.
The crash killed all six aboard. Investigators recovered the plane's voice recorder from the wreckage of the King Air C-90-A.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Gunther says investigators did not believe inflight fire or mechanical control failure caused the crash.
Six men aboard the plane were headed to a hunting trip in Virginia when the plane crashed.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the aircraft appeared to come in to land too high and veered off to come back when it crashed.
Investigators said the plane left the Polk County airport at
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N57WR King Air C90 (http://www.flyingway.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19361)
The crash killed all six aboard. Investigators recovered the plane's voice recorder from the wreckage of the King Air C-90-A.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Gunther says investigators did not believe inflight fire or mechanical control failure caused the crash.
Six men aboard the plane were headed to a hunting trip in Virginia when the plane crashed.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the aircraft appeared to come in to land too high and veered off to come back when it crashed.
Investigators said the plane left the Polk County airport at
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=110596
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3825522/
http://www.11alive.com/assetpool/images/082202557_crash201a.jpg
N57WR King Air C90 (http://www.flyingway.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19361)