Plane that crashed into parking lot struggled to gain altitude after taking off from Centennial Airport

The pilots — an instructor and his student — of a small propeller plane that crashed last month into a parking lot near Centennial Airport reported struggling to gain altitude as they took off before their aircraft went down.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary report on the Feb. 18 crash, said the instructor said the plane was “slow to climb” and that it “felt like something was pushing the airplane down.”
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