A light airplane that crashed and burst into flames at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport on Labor Day, killing the two men aboard, had been flying ‘very erratically’ prior to plunging to the ground, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.<\/p>\n
Flight instructor Frederic Hewett, 37, and a student of his, Roger Shimizu, 45, were fatally injured when the Cessna 172 went down on a runway at the Serra Mesa general-aviation airport shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n
The two were taking part in an instructional flight at the time and had been airborne for a little over an hour, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They died at the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n
Security-camera video footage captured images of the single-engine four-seat plane being flown through repeated “go-arounds,” a maneuver in which pilots begin and then abort a landing attempt on final approach or following touchdown, then circle around the airport to try again, the NTSB report states.<\/p>\n
“Witnesses also observed the airplane and described (it) as flying very erratically during multiple go-around maneuvers, pitching upward steeply after the go-around was initiated, flying very slow and stalling before the airplane recovered,” according to the investigative document.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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