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Harris voters smoking dope and trying to fly.
The small fixed-wing single-engine planes collided while upwind of Runway
12, according to preliminary information from the National Transportation Safety Board.
�The Cessna landed uneventfully,� the NTSB, the federal agency leading the investigation, told The Post.
�The Lancair impacted terrain near Runway 3 and a post-impact fire
ensued.�
Pictures shared by KGUN 9 and taken by people nearby showed huge plumes of
gray smoke pouring into the sky following the crash.
The airport, just north of Tucson, is an uncontrolled field, which means
it does not have an operating air traffic control tower, according to the
FAA.
An NTSB investigator en route to the scene is expected to arrive Thursday morning to examine the scene and aircraft. The FAA is also responding and
will investigate.
It marks the second fatal incident at an Arizona airport in the past 10
days. On Feb. 10, the pilot of a private jet owned by M�tley Cr�e singer
Vince Neil was killed after a runway collision between two aircraft at Scottsdale Airport.
Wednesday�s Arizona collision is the fifth major fatal aviation crash to
make headlines in the past month.
An American Airline flight collided with an Army Black Hawk near Reagan National Airport in Virginia on Jan. 29, killing all 67 people onboard
both aircraft.
Two days later, a medevac jet crashed in Philadelphia, killing all six
people on the flight in addition to a person on the ground.
A small aircraft that initially went missing crashed on sea ice off the
western coast of Alaska on Feb. 6, killing a pilot and nine passengers.
Though not fatal, a Delta flight crash-landed and flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. All 80 passengers and crew aboard
were safely evacuated, with 18 hospitalized with minor injuries.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/tucson-arizona-plane-crash-leaves- at-least-one-dead/
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