NTSB updates deadly Newton Co plane crash

Flight instructor, student killed in April accident

A private flight instructor was teaching a student pilot when the two died in a fiery crash last month near the Covington Municipal Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the deadly April 21 crash Friday. Two people were killed when a Cessna 340 small twin-engine propeller plane went down near the General Mills manufacturing plant in Covington.

NTSB officials are investigating the crash along with the Federal Aviation Administration.

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