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An NTSB report said the two pilots received a series of alerts, during and after takeoff, before switching off a setting used to stabilize the plane.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A business jet flying over New England violently pitched upward then downward, fatally injuring a passenger, after pilots responding to automated cockpit warnings switched off a system that helps keep the aircraft stable, U.S. transportation investigators reported Friday.

The National Transportation Safety Board didn’t reach any conclusions in its preliminary report on the main cause of the March 3 accident, but it described a series of things that went wrong before and after the plane swooped out of control.

Irish airline Aer Lingus will resume its nonstop service from Bradley International Airport to Dublin, Ireland Sunday, following a service interruption because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Springfield-Hartford has been without transatlantic service since the pandemic.

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Investigators say the violent movements that killed a woman aboard a private jet were not caused by the weather.

A new report said that a private plane on which a woman was fatally injured and made emergency landing at Bradley International Airport earlier this month did not experience turbulence.

Aviation officials said the jet diverted to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut after the plane experienced turbulence.

Investigators said a passenger on a business jet was fatally injured after pilots disconnected a system used to stabilize the plane.