Witnesses: Engine problem in crash that killed 3
SHELDON, Iowa (AP) — Two witnesses reported hearing a plane's engine "coughing, sputtering and missing" before it crashed in northwest Iowa last month, killing three local men.
That's according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, which says the witnesses saw the plane at a low altitude. They also reported that the engine quit, restarted and quit again.
The men killed were: 64-year-old Francis Allegretti of Cambridge; 60-year-old Thomas Boos of Fort Atkinson; and 65-year-old Malcolm McMillan of Milton.
The three men died June 23 when the single-engine Piper crashed during a flight from Fort Atkinson to a hunting trip in South Dakota.
The plane touched down in a cornfield near Sheldon, traveled about 100 feet and hit a ditch near a gravel road before nosing over.
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