PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The National Transportation Safety Board has released a docket of videos, pictures and data from the medical jet crash in Northeast Philly in January of last year that killed eight people.
There’s still no conclusion about what caused the crash, but the report notes that the plane made a gradual left turn after takeoff.
The report says sometimes pilots experience “spatial disorientation”; if a pilot isn’t constantly monitoring flight instruments, he or she may not recognize a gradual bank turn until it’s too late. The report, though, doesn’t conclude that this is what happened.
Neither pilot had experience taking off or landing at Northeast Philadelphia Airport, the report says. And, in a previous training, the flight instructor noted that the pilot in command had a tendency to react before thinking through the problem.
Complicating the investigation, there was no flight data recorder, and the cockpit voice recorder wasn’t working.
