![]() Sunday night and involved a 1978 single-engine Cessna 210. The agency’s investigation could take up to a 18 months to complete, according to Fox. He also said there is no probable cause for the accident or conclusions at this time. The survivor is in critical condition, Fox said. He declined to provide names of the people in the plane at the time of the crash and only confirmed there were two males and one female in the aircraft. ![]() The plane plowed through two trees and struck a power line before crashing into the ground about 250 feet away, said Fox, who works out of the federal agency’s Chicago office.įox said he and a team are investigating the crash. He arrived at the crash site at about noon, he said. “He didn’t use those words but he said he was either low on fuel or out of fuel.” “Shortly after that, the pilot reported having a fuel emergency,” he said. He also asked where on the airport property he could land, Fox said. The pilot asked to circle the airport to troubleshoot the problem, he said. The control tower instructed the pilot to fly by the tower so they could check the landing gear and they verified that not all three landing gear were fully extended, Fox said. Shortly thereafter, the pilot reported a landing gear anomaly or malfunction.” ![]() “As it approached the Detroit metropolitan area, the pilot requested to land… he was given clearance on runway 33. “It was a normal flight plan … and the airplane was in communication with air traffic control for practically the whole flight,” Fox said Monday at the site of the crash on Milton Street near Van Dyke on the city’s east side. The pilot of the plane that crashed Sunday in a vacant lot near Detroit City Airport reported trouble with the aircraft’s landing gear and low fuel, said Andrew Fox, a federal air safety investigator.
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