Student pilot was learning to recover from aerodynamic spins when plane crashed into Larimer County reservoir, killing 2
A student pilot was learning to enter and recover from aerodynamic spins when a plane carrying him and a flight instructor plummeted into a Larimer County reservoir near Berthoud last month, federal investigators say, killing them both.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary report released Friday, says witnesses reported the Cessna 172 was steeply spinning toward the ground when the Feb. 27 wreck happened at Culver Reservoir.
“(A) witness also indicated that it wa
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