Details of the plane crash on November 30th that claimed the lives of nine passengers and the serious injury of three others have been pubished now.
Among those killed in the crash were Kirk and Jim Hansen who were executives with Conrad & Bischoff, Kyäni and KJ’s Super Stores, as well as the developers of the moderate-income apartments and townhomes at Hidden Hollow in Jackson.
According to the preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board, the pilot and a passenger worked for three hours “to remove snow and ice from the airplane. The NTSB said a witness recalled having seen the plane take off and then crashed within a mile of takeoff in Chamberlain, South Dakota. Chamberlain, and much of South Dakota, was under a Winter Storm Warning from the National Weather Service at the time of the crash.
Three of the plane’s warning systems – the stall warning, stick shaker and stick pusher – activated within 15 seconds after liftoff, according to the NTSB report. The airplane immediately rolled about 10 degrees to the left after takeoff. The plane then reversed to five degrees to the right before it “ultimately entered a 64-degree left bank as the airplane reached its peak altitude of 460 feet above ground.
The preliminary report does not include analysis or a probable cause for the accident. Probable cause will be determined at the end of the investigation, which could take between 12-14 months.
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