Mechanical failures may have led to crash
By Christoph Trappe
The Gazette
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GRINNELL - Poweshiek County Sheriff Tom Sheets said Tuesday that there may have been a mechanical failure that led to the crash of a single-engine aircraft near Grinnell on Friday that killed two on board.
Blane Anderson, 34, the pilot, and Joshua J. Reynolds, 35, both of Iowa City, were the two men who died. The two were delivering the plane from Washington state to Iowa City for a third party who bought the plane. Anderson, a father of three and a pilot for Jet Air Inc., a company in Galesburg, Ill., and Iowa City, took time off from work to fly the plane back from Seattle, according to officials at Jet Air.
“A final determination may not be known for up to six months as the information gathered has to be evaluated,” Sheets said in a statement about the investigation.
Federal officials are continuing their investigation.
As first reported in Sunday’s Gazette, Anderson and Reynolds left Seattle on Jan. 26 but the plane had mechanical problems and the two men were stuck in Idaho for a few days waiting for parts.
On Friday morning they left Wyoming, staying close to the highways. The plane crashed about 20 minutes before they would have reached Iowa City.
By Christoph Trappe
The Gazette
[email protected]
GRINNELL - Poweshiek County Sheriff Tom Sheets said Tuesday that there may have been a mechanical failure that led to the crash of a single-engine aircraft near Grinnell on Friday that killed two on board.
Blane Anderson, 34, the pilot, and Joshua J. Reynolds, 35, both of Iowa City, were the two men who died. The two were delivering the plane from Washington state to Iowa City for a third party who bought the plane. Anderson, a father of three and a pilot for Jet Air Inc., a company in Galesburg, Ill., and Iowa City, took time off from work to fly the plane back from Seattle, according to officials at Jet Air.
“A final determination may not be known for up to six months as the information gathered has to be evaluated,” Sheets said in a statement about the investigation.
Federal officials are continuing their investigation.
As first reported in Sunday’s Gazette, Anderson and Reynolds left Seattle on Jan. 26 but the plane had mechanical problems and the two men were stuck in Idaho for a few days waiting for parts.
On Friday morning they left Wyoming, staying close to the highways. The plane crashed about 20 minutes before they would have reached Iowa City.
