Perkasie plane crash: Ill-fated plane entered tailspin before crashing into Bucks County neighborhood
PERKASIE, Pa. - Federal investigators said an ill-fated plane was performing maneuvers when it entered a tailspin and crashed into a Bucks County neighborhood last month killing both aboard.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Thursday shared its preliminary report on the Feb.
24 crash of a Beech 35-C33 in Hilltown, Pennsylvania. Investigators said the pilot and owner of the airplane, identified earlier as 55-year-old Brian Filipini was training for the commercial pilot practical exam.
Filipini and 74-year-old Alfred George Piranian - a flight instructor - took off from Doylestown Airport around 4:30 p.m. Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was headed to Gunden Airstrip, a rarely used plot of grass in Bucks County.
The owner of Gunden told FOX 29 that only a handful of planes have used the private strip in his 20 years of ownership, and he wasn't aware of the plane's plan to land.The owner of a small airstrip in Perkasie said he had no idea that an ill-fated plane was planning to plan at his rarely used airstrip before it crashed in a residential neighborhood.According to the NTSB's report, the plane was "performing maneuvers about 2,000 ft mean sea level when it entered a left spin and descended into a residential street." The deadly crash was captured on a nearby home's doorbell camera that is now part of the investigation.
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