Officials said that a small private plane tried to avoid a turtle on the North Carolina runway before hitting an explosive area earlier this month, killing the pilot and passengers on the plane.
Universal Stinson 108 was trying to land at Sugar Valley Airport just before noon on June 3 when the communications player advised that reptiles measured on the runway, according to a preliminary report of the National Transport Safety Council issued on Friday.
The report said that the pilot initially landed on the plane in the middle of the road to the bottom of the 2424 -foot runway, then raised the right -wing wheel and the suffocate came to take off again in an attempt to avoid Terrapin.
The operator told the officials that she lost the plane's vision shortly before its crash in a severe wooded area, about 255 feet through the runway and exploded in Moksville, about 60 miles north of Charlotte.
Officials said the plane was found in largely installed between several trees and a healthy, except for a few pieces of fabric discovered in a nearby course.
A man witnessed cutting the grass near the end of the pioneering amphitheater to lift the wheel to spare the turtle, then saw the wings of the plane vibrating as it fired again – before losing the plane's vision and then hearing an accident loudly followed by smoke.
A second passenger was seriously injured in the accident.
The identities of the victims were not released.
The debris and the engine were preserved after the breakdown for further examination.
The deadly accident occurred nearly two months after the rabbit's absorption in the engine of the United Airways plane, causing a fire and forcing an emergency landing.
Fire shocking footage was taken from a engines shortly after leaving the plane heading to Canada at Denver International Airport in Colorado.
The Federal Aviation Administration has reported more than 20,000 strikes in wildlife in 2024 alone – most of them are birds.
