MESQUITE, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday released a preliminary report after a pilot was killed in a small plane crash in Mesquite last month.
The plane, a Cessna CitationJet, crashed after taking off from the Mesquite Metro Airport shortly after 7:30 a.m. March 13, while en route to the Addison Airport to pick up passengers and continue to an undetermined location, according to the plane’s owner in the NTSB report. The pilot, who was killed, was the only casualty, according to the report.
The fixed based operator manager at the Mesquite Airport reported the pilot had requested a fuel top-off before departing, and the airplane was fueled with 224 gallons of Jet-A fuel, the report stated…