WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A airplane that crashed last month in North Carolina, killing two folks from Illinois, made a sputtering sound and was the other way up shortly earlier than hitting the bottom, in line with a preliminary report published Friday by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
The Piper PA30 Twin Comanche was making ready to land at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem on Nov. 19, the report acknowledged.
An air visitors controller cleared the pilot to land, and the pilot confirmed the radio transmission however continued previous the runway, in line with the report. The pilot then requested “a proper 360° flip, which the controller authorized. There have been no additional radio transmissions from the pilot.”
A witness on a close-by golf course advised investigators that he watched the airplane and heard it “making a sputtering sound,” the report acknowledged.
“The witness additional described that the…
