A plane that crashed and killed three people in rural Lafayette Parish on Oct. 21 transmitted that it had unspecified engine issues.
The pilot attempted the land at the Lafayette Regional Airport when the transmission to Air Traffic Control came in about 9 miles from the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report.
The Raytheon Aircraft Company G58 departed from David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport in Houston, Texas, and was bound for LFT when the engine issue may have begun…