11/03/09

PROVO, Utah (AP) _ The National Transportation Safety Board has
released a preliminary report in a small plane crash last month in
Utah County that killed a 30-year-old man.

The NTSB released the report Monday. It says the weather was
clear, no one saw any strange maneuvering from the plane and there
were not normal signs of distress like a smoke trail.

Benjamin Hill, of Springville, was killed Oct. 21 after the
Cessna he was piloting lost power on a flight between Spanish Fork
and Provo and crashed just short of the Provo airport runway.

Hill was a student at Utah Valley University's aviation science
program. He was also an adjunct instructor in the program. He was
not flying a UVU plane.

The investigation is ongoing and the plane is still being
examined.
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Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldextra.com

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