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NTSB: Empty fuel tank likely cause of Wichita plane crash

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WICHITA — A preliminary report says a rented airplane with two teenagers aboard lost engine power when it crashed onto a Kansas golf course.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that a Federal Aviation Administration inspector who examined the 1966 single-engine Mooney, piloted by a 17-year-old boy, reported finding no fuel in the left fuel tank.

Wichita police said that an 18-year-old woman was also aboard the airplane when it came down on the 14th hole at the Tallgrass Country Club on March 18, narrowly missing nearby ...


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