A team led by the National Transportation Safety Board’s senior investigator was headed this morning to the scene of a plane crash that killed 10 people with ties to Snohomish on Sunday.
The group’s is being led by Howard Plagens, the NTSB’s senior investigator.
“Howard will prepare a preliminary report (on the accident) over the next four to five days,” said Debra Eckrote, regional director for the NTSB, the federal agency that investigates plane crashes.
A final report could take a year to complete, Eckrote said.
Plagens’ team will include two to three investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and two Cessna Aircraft Co. investigators. NTSB investigators in Washington D.C. will study radar information from the plane’s flight and look at any complications from weather. The FAA, which regulates the use of airplanes, is conducting its own investigation, which it will submit to NTSB.
Eckrote said the wreckage likely will be flown out of the crash site by the end of the week. It likely will be hauled to a site in Maple Valley in King County, where investigators can attempt to put the pieces back together in a way that will help them try to figure out what went wrong, she said.
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