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NTSB report shows ultralight plane struck hangar in fatal White County crash

Posted 10:36PM on Wednesday 27th July 2022 ( 2 years ago )

The National Transportation Safety Board has filed its preliminary report in the July 8 White County plane crash that killed 79-year-old pilot Lee Olson of Gainesville.

“An experimental, amateur-built Kolb Firestar II airplane … was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Cleveland,” the report states. “The pilot/owner held a sport pilot certificate and was based at the Mountain Airpark, Cleveland.”

Surveillance video at the private Airpark corroborated what witnesses told emergency personnel at the crash scene: as the airplane began its initial climb, the pitch angle increased, and the airplane entered a steep left bank turn.

“The airplane turned left about 180 degrees and descended behind trees,” the NTSB report reads. “The airplane collided with a hangar then terrain before it came to rest in the driveway of a personal residence. There was no post-impact fire.”

The wreckage of the plane was taken for further investigation.

The preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report on this ultralight airplane crash in White County shows the plane took off, made a steep bank to the left, and struck a hangar before striking the ground, resulting in fatal injuries to the pilot.

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