A two-plane crash over Watsonville Municipal Airport that claimed three lives in 2022 was caused by pilot error, according to a federal aviation accident oversight report released recently.
A recent report determines cause and fault in a fatal 2022 double airplane crash over Watsonville Municipal Airport. Here, a single-engine Cessna 152 lays where it was crashed. “The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause of this accident to be: The failure of the pilot of the multi-engine airplane to see and avoid the single-engine airplane while performing a straight-in approach for landing,” states the 12-page report released March 28.
“Both pilots continued to make appropriate position reports, but did not communicate with each other until the multiengine airplane was about one mile from the airport and the single-engine airplane had turned onto the base leg of the traffic pattern for landing,” the report states.When Kruppa, along with passenger Nannette Plett-Kruppa, 67, of Winton, were less than a mile out, Camenson stated that he saw the Cessna 340 and that the Cessna 340 was behind him.
“He then saw the Cessna 340 try to turn right and its wing hit the wing of the Cessna 152,” the report states of the witness’ observations. “He subsequently saw both airplanes descend to the ground.” Who’s dying now? Here’s how recent COVID deaths compare to the early months of the pandemic in California
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