The National Transportation Safety Board has released a
preliminary report into a plane crash in eastern Kanawha County
The NTSB says Lazarus and Maryann Sommers of Millersburg, Ohio left Akron
Fulton International
Airport
According to the report, at 4:12 p.m. the pilot requested and
was cleared to make a 30 degree left turn to maneuver around an area of rain.
At 4:25 p.m., the pliot initiated a left turn and began to
descend. When asked by Air Traffic Control why he was devaiting from the flight
path, the pilot responded that he was flying around bad weather.
A short time later, the airplane made a right turn and started
heading south and southwest before radio and radar contact with the pilot was
lost.
The plane's wreckage was found in a remote wooded area near Riverside
Lazarus and Maryann Sommers were both killed in the crash.
