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The crew of a small plane that crashed in Knoxville on Dec. 19 was simulating a left engine failure when the left engine actually failed, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. What happened next is still under investigation, but the plane ultimately crashed into some trees and landed atop a car in a driveway of a house in the Morningside neighborhood of East Knoxville.
The three men inside the plane — Gerald Marotta, Mike Spinazzola and Robert Gintz — were bloodied, but they survived. No homes were hit. There was no fire and no explosion. The NTSB's preliminary report relays the stories told by the three men about what happened that day. Based on those accounts, two aviation experts criticized the crew's actions and argued that the flight should have never happened in the first place. Although the experts disagreed on the primary cause of the crash, they agreed it was "amazing" that the men survived and that no one on the ground was hurt.
The crew of a small plane that crashed in Knoxville on Dec. 19 was simulating a left engine failure when the left engine actually failed, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. What happened next is still under investigation, but the plane ultimately crashed into some trees and landed atop a car in a driveway of a house in the Morningside neighborhood of East Knoxville.
The three men inside the plane — Gerald Marotta, Mike Spinazzola and Robert Gintz — were bloodied, but they survived. No homes were hit. There was no fire and no explosion. The NTSB's preliminary report relays the stories told by the three men about what happened that day. Based on those accounts, two aviation experts criticized the crew's actions and argued that the flight should have never happened in the first place. Although the experts disagreed on the primary cause of the crash, they agreed it was "amazing" that the men survived and that no one on the ground was hurt.
