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Friday, January 11, 2013
The teenage pilot who crashed a small plane on New Year's Day was working at the Walker County Airport in exchange for flying lessons, according to a preliminary investigation by the NTSB.
The National Transportation Safety Board said 17-year-old Jason Smith did not make radio contact during the short flight before he crashed. Authorities learned of the crash in Walker County only after witnesses called 911. The report said the aircraft was flying very low on a rainy night but did not directly say what caused the crash that killed the pilot and two other teenage passengers aboard.
Smith had completed a solo flight as a student pilot in April of last year in a single engine Cessna before he stopped taking lessons from the airport manager. The owner of the twin-engine Piper PA-30 said that he knew Smith from his work at the airport but never gave him permission to fly the aircraft.
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