One of many pilots on a small airplane that crashed within the median of Interstate 684 in Greenwich in December had known as air visitors controllers earlier than the deadly crash and stated the airplane was shedding its engine, in response to the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
The company has launched its preliminary report on the Dec. 12 crash that killed a passenger on the airplane and injured the pilot who was flying the plane.
State troopers responded to the freeway, between exits 2 and three, round 7:54 p.m. on that evening after the airplane crashed.
The NTSB’s preliminary report gives particulars on what occurred earlier than the crash.
It says that the airplane took off from Linden Airport in New Jersey round 6:09 p.m. and a pilot advised air visitors management that they had been heading for Albany, New York.
Then, at 6:26 p.m., one of many pilots stated they needed to divert to Westchester County Airport as a result of they had been shedding their engine.
A few minute and a half after the decision requesting to divert, one of many pilots stated they switched gas tanks and it appeared like they received the engine again, the report says.
However, one of many pilots stated at 6:42 p.m. that they had been shedding the engine once more and would head for runway 16 at Westchester County Airport.
Video surveillance from the airport confirmed the airplane make a steep left flip and descend over I-684, climb shortly, then descend under the tree line, the report says.
A witnesses who was on the freeway when the crash occurred stated he noticed the airplane, “fall very fast out of the sky and crash in the center median,” the report says.
Then he went to the crash website and was in a position to pull one individual from the airplane earlier than Westchester County police arrived.
The NTSB stated the preliminary examination of the engine didn’t reveal any proof of catastrophic mechanical failure or malfunction.
The NTSB stated the wreckage was retained for additional examination and two private digital units and two Garmin digital flight shows with Safe Digital playing cards had been retained for read-out on the NTSB’s Car Recorders Division.
Connecticut state police recognized the passenger who died within the airplane crash as Jacob Yankele Friedman, 32 of Monsey, New York. He was a passenger within the airplane and he died on the scene. The NTSB report says he was a industrial pilot.
The pilot, a 26-year-old resident of Linden, New Jersey, was taken to a hospital in New York to be handled for minor accidents.
NTSB points the preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the Dec. 12 crash of a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam P2008 close to Greenwich, Connecticut. Obtain the report PDF: https://t.co/9ImimEZZ6L
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) December 31, 2024
