The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near Lansing, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Thursday. "The captain was provided with a list of experienced test pilots, for hire, to perform the post-maintenance stall test flight," the NTSB said in the report. "However, after being unable to coordinate the stall test flight with a test pilot, the flight crew elected to perform the post-maintenance stall test themselves."
Publicly available flight tracking data from ADS-B Exchange shows the plane suddenly descending " at times reaching a blistering 24,000 feet per minute. Bystanders captured video showing the jet corkscrewing toward the ground, then disappearing behind homes before a large black plume of smoke appears.
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