CHICAGO, IL--The National Transportation Safety Board is offering more details about a deadly single engine plane crash nearly 2 weeks ago in North Iowa.
A preliminary report posted on the NTSB's web site is offering more reasons why investigators believe David Colglazier's Cessna 172 hit power lines before it went down on July 3.
Investigators believe Colglazier, 44, of Latimer had
departed earlier from the H
ampton municipal airport in Franklin County
at an unconfirmed time. Investigators report Colglazier's wife, Autumn said her husband
had provided airplane rides for some friends earlier in the day over I
owa F
alls and S
heffield. S
hortly before the accident, the airplane over flew their home along 190th Street near Latimer
as a signal to her that he was done flying and needed to be picked up at the airport.Autumn Colglazier began to drive
down C
ounty Road C-25
toward the Hampton
airport. As she was driving, she saw
the airplane in her rear-view mirror following her car at a low altitude before it suddenly descended nose first into the ground at around 1:30 p.m.
Investigators found t
he 1957 Cessna's
nose landing gear near a set of power lines that crossed over the roadway. T
he NTSB is also reporting the
nose landing gear strut exhibited damage consistent with an impact with a power line. The main wreckage was located about 200 feet past the power lines along the direction of flight.Colglazier died in the crash and the plane was destroyed.
A final determination on the cause of the mishap may not be known for up to a year.
