Pilot Dead After Small Plane Crashes In South Jersey
The male pilot, the only person on board, was killed when the plane crashed in Waterford Township, Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen said.
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The male pilot, the only person on board, was killed when the plane crashed in Waterford Township, Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen said.
There was no radio communication from a single-engine plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey for the final two hours of the flight, federal investigators said Friday as the Coast Guard continued to search for the pilot.
It's supposed to be routine for pilots. "Before every takeoff, for whatever airplane you're flying, a flight control check should be done," says the NTSB's Robert Sumwalt.
In searching for answers about the death of Inquirer co-owner, Lewis Katz and six others in a May plane crash, Gulfstream, the aircraft manufacturer concluded that a pilot oversight had allowed the aircraft to reach a high rate of speed while it was unable to take off.
West Caldwell police say the crash occurred late Saturday morning, about a half-mile from the Essex County Airport.
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Yvonne Selke and her daughter Emily, a 2013 Drexel University graduate, both died in the crash.
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National Transportation Safety Board officials are looking at black boxes they recovered and gave an update Tuesday.
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Lewis Katz, a self-made man who built his fortune in New York parking lots, billboards and cable TV, and went on to buy the NBA's New Jersey Nets, NHL's New Jersey Devils and The Philadelphia Inquirer, died in a weekend plane crash. He was 72.
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