NTSB Releases Report in Augusta County aircraft crash, in which 4 were killed

A plane crash, which was killed four people in Augusta County two years ago, was most likely due to the pilot company and passengers during the first rise of the aircraft, according to the National Transportation Safety Board from Tennessee to New York.

The agency published its final report on the crash on May 13th.

On June 4, 2023, the Cessna Citation 560 started with only his pilot Jeff Hefner from Melbourne, Florida. He flew to Elizabethton, Tennessee, where he collected three passengers pick-up Adina Azarian, 49, her daughter Aria Azarian, 2, and 56-year-old Evadnie Smith, the child's nanny.

The Cessna raised from 1:13 p.m. from Elizabethton Airport in Ronkonkoma, New York, at 1:13 p.m. from Long Island Macarthur Airport (ISP). After an air lift control had instructed the pilot to stop his ascent at 33,000 feet, there was no reaction and the plane with 34,000 feet.

“Despite repeated attempts to contact the pilot, no further radio transmissions from the pilot were received for the rest of the flight,” said the NTSB in its report.

The plane arrived at the ISP in the ISP in New York at 2:30 p.m., still at 34,000 feet. It then turned to the southwest. “The flight route showed a slight deviation at the lane or height until 1522 when the plane entered the site in a rapidly descending right -wing descent,” said the NTSB.

The plane fell from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Augusta County, about 1 1/2 miles north of Montebello.

Throughout the crash, Thanirplane was intercepted by the USAF fighting aircraft after a North American aerial and space defense command. “The USAF pilots stated that the outdoor area of the aircraft had nothing remarkable such as holes or missing windows or doors. They did not observe any aircraft cell, frost in the cockpit or the passenger window or smoke in the cabin,” the report said.

Hefner was supposedly sunk on a right seat and remained motionless. No movement was observed in the cabin area and radio transmissions were not returned.

“It is likely that the pilot of the accident aircraft was overridden during the ascent to the height of Cruise.

The NTSB said it was likely that all occupants are based on a common environmental condition, such as: The report also found that some articles on the plane were overdue for the inspection.

“About four weeks before the accident flight, the maintenance personnel found 26 discrepancies that the owner refused, including several in connection with the printing and environmental control system,” the report, including an unmistaked oxygen mask with the pilot's side. The supplementary oxygen of the aircraft was also at a minimal maintenance level.

“At this level, the oxygen would not have made it available to the occupants of the aircraft, and passenger oxygen masks would not have been used in the event of a pressure loss. There was no evidence that the oxygen system was waited or that the pilot side oxygen mask was used again before the accident flight,” says the report.

The NTSB said that the occupants of the aircraft were probably hypoxic and then unable to lack oxygen. “However, the reason for the pressure of the pressure loss and the question of whether it was quick or advanced over time could not be determined,” said the agency. The report states that a contributing factor in the crash was the pilot's decision together with the owner/operator for the operation of the aircraft without additional oxygen.

The NTSB said that wrecks were fragmented and distributed around a main crater and said that proof of a fire was observed after the impact. An engine was mostly intact and found about 100 feet downhill from the impact crater. The other engine was fragmented and in the rubble field, said the NTSB.

A cockpit language recorder that was not necessary was not found or recovered by the accident site.

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