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CFIT at Night

The NTSB cites a pilot’s failure to maintain altitude in a Huey’s CFIT crash in New Mexico.

by Linda Werfelman | July 25, 2019

The 6,400-hour commercial pilot told rescuers it was “all my fault” that the Bell UH-1H Iroquois struck the ground on a dark-night flight shortly after takeoff from Raton, New Mexico, U.S., killing four of his five passengers and seriously injuring the fifth. The pilot died soon afterward, en route to a hospital.


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