BEAVER ISLAND, MI (AP)— Federal investigators have concluded that a pilot's error while landing caused a 2021 plane crash on a Michigan island that killed four people.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the November 13th, 2021 crash on Beaver Island. The agency said the pilot lost control during landing and crashed 300 feet from the airport’s runway.
The twin-engine Britten-Norman plane was flying from Charlevoix in the Lower Peninsula. The pilot and three others were killed. A girl who was 11 survived.
The pilot was flying for Island Airways, which takes travelers between Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan and the northern Lower Peninsula.
