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The final report from the board on the fatal accident will probably not be ready for nine to 15 months.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
DAYTON — The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that it could, by the end of next week, release initial factual findings about the plane crash that killed stunt pilot Jim LeRoy before a crowd at the Vectren Dayton Air Show.
But the board's full, final report of its investigation into the crash won't likely be ready for nine to 15 months, spokesman Peter Knudson said by telephone from the board's Washington, D.C., headquarters. The board typically needs that long to examine evidence from a crash scene, examine videotapes and interview witnesses, and gather other information about the crashed plane, its pilot and the pilot's training, Knudson said.
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The NTSB investigator, Ed Malinowski of its Chicago district office, doesn't plan to visit the crash scene since Federal Aviation Administration staff have been collecting evidence there since the crash Saturday, Knudson said. The FAA's flight standards district office at Dayton International Airport will forward the evidence to the NTSB, he said.
The NTSB has a total of about 45 staff investigators at 10 district offices nationwide who collectively investigate 1,700 to 1,800 air crashes each year, Knudson said.
LeRoy, 46, of Lake City, Fla., was at the controls of his Bulldog Pitts biplane during an aerobatic routine with a second aircraft piloted by Skip Stewart when LeRoy's plane smashed into the ground at an estimated 200 mph.
The Montgomery County coroner's office concluded that LeRoy's death was an accident and that he died instantly from the blunt-force impact to his spine and torso.
More about the crash and pilot
- Government: Pilot error in fatal air show crash
- Announcer comforted crowd, wife after crash
- Memorial planned for pilot
- Tapes: Rescue crews on scene 2 minutes after air show crash
- NTSB may release crash info next week
- NTSB: Report on fatal crash by next week
- Air show pilot died instantly after crash
- NTSB takes over inquiry into fatal air show plane crash
- Crash 'a harsh reminder' of risk
- Pilot killed in crash was a full-time performer
- A stunned crowd watches crash, then prays for flier
- Many spectators shocked, silenced by air show tragedy
- What it was like to photograph crash: A dreaded scene, a sickly feeling
- Black Hawk flies pilot to hospital
- Act that included LeRoy meant to awe, thrill
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- Statement about Sunday's air show
- Photos of crash, earlier performance
- Diagram: How the crash happened
- Spectator video of air show crash
- Raw video of crash
