Investigators say the pilot of that plane reported engine trouble moments before the crash. They're still, however, trying to figure out why.
As National Transportation Safety Board investigators work to determine what caused the crash, we were able to get a closer look at the wreckage in the daylight. According to the FAA, the single engine Cessna 152 came down Sunday at about 7:15pm. FAA spokesperson Lynn Lunsford says the pilot was trying to return to the runway when the plane crashed into the hangar.
Rob Patterson, who spoke with eyewitnesses, said, "It started going straight up in the air. It looked like it got inverted and then came down."
Patterson knows people who witnessed the aircraft's final moments. He says they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"It turned around, it looked like to land and it just came straight down," he said.
The tail number on that plane N55UF matches that on the website of nearby United Flight Systems. They run a flight school at Hooks Airport. The medical examiner identifies the two on board that plane as a pilot and an instructor.
At United on Monday we found a sign on the door reading "closed until further notice." No one from the flight school returned our repeated calls.
Authorities have not yet publicly identified the two who died in the crash.
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