A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report shows a helicopter that crashed in Boynton Beach, killing the flight instructor and student pilot had completed a 100-hour maintenance inspection on the same day as the fatal flight.
NTSB report details fatal Boynton Beach helicopter crash
The fatal crash happened on March 23 just before 12:30 p.m. Investigators said the Robinson R44 helicopter crashed into a warehouse located in the 3800 block of South Congress Avenue, shortly after the aircraft underwent a maintenance inspection.
The crash killed flight instructor Alejandro Carrasco, 28, of West Palm Beach, and student pilot Bryan Menna, 52, from Michigan. According to pilot records, Carrasco had about 822 total hours of civilian flight experience, the report said.
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Carrasco reported an emergency about 27 seconds after first reporting his position, the NTSB’s preliminary report stated.
“We’re going to be landing out here in one of these fields, we’ve got something going on with the helicopter,” Carrasco said in the report…