NTSB Preliminary Report Suggests Pilot Who Crashed Into Florida Mobile Home Park Couldn't Locate Airport – 95.5 ...

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According to the preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released on Tuesday, two people at Clearwater Air Park told the Federal Aviation Administration that the pilot of the Beech 35 plane said he could not find the airport. He "asked them to turn on the runway lights, which were already on from an airplane that had just landed," the report said.

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NTSB preliminary report suggests pilot who crashed into Florida mobile home park couldn't locate airport – 95.5 ...

According to the preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released on Tuesday, two people at Clearwater Air Park told the Federal Aviation Administration that the pilot of the Beech 35 plane said he could not find the airport. He "asked them to turn on the runway lights, which were already on from an airplane that had just landed," the report said.

The pilot, Jemin Patel, 54, of Melbourne Beach, asked air traffic control in another communication to turn the runway lights on, the report said. Although the air traffic controllers changed the lighting to its "highest intensity," per the report, the pilot was unable to locate the airport.

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