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A witness who saw a plane crash last month at an airport in Trenton told federal investigators that visibility was “brutal” when the small aircraft tried to land.
Two people died in the crash on July 25 at Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport.
In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board said a technician was repairing landing lights on the runway at the airport when he heard the sound of an approaching airplane just before 12:30 p.m. The technician told investigators that he could barely see the small plane when it emerged from thick fog about 100 yards away.
“He heard the airplane’s engine noise go to full power and when he looked up at the airplane, he noticed that it was in a sharp left turn before it descended to ground impact,” the report said.
The witness was not identified in the report.
Michael Leibowitz, 71, of Charleston, South Carolina, was piloting the fixed-wing single-engine Cirrus SR22 with a passenger, 57-year-old Christina Chung of Livingston, New Jersey, officials have said.
Leibowitz and Chung took off from Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey earlier in the day and were approaching Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton about 12:25 p.m. when they crashed.
