Four aircraft accidents in Northeast Florida in the past two months have one thing in common all were fatal to the pilots and passengers on board, leaving a total of eight dead.
Two of them involved an instructor and passenger, one of those a young student pilot from Fernandina Beach, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The board s new preliminary report for the latter June 18 crash in the St. Marys River indicates that the Cessna 150L s engine was still on when it hit the water shortly after 11 a.m. But there is still no information of what caused instructor David William Cuttino and 18-year-old student pilot Alexis George to crash after taking off from nearby Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport, according to the report.
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