By Associated Press - Wednesday, March 1, 2017

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Federal authorities investigating a fatal plane crash in Connecticut say the aircraft’s stall warning horn was heard as one of the pilots declared a mayday on the radio.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Tuesday on the Feb. 22 crash of a Piper PA 38 in East Haven. The student pilot, Pablo Campos Isona, of East Haven, was killed and the flight instructor, Rafayel Hany Wassef, of New London, was critically injured.

The report says the American Flight Academy instructor and student were practicing touch-and-go landings at Tweed New Haven Airport when the plane spun to the left and crashed. One of them radioed mayday, and the plane’s stall warning horn was heard in the background.



The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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This story corrects that Isona was the student pilot and Wassef was the flight instructor.

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