MURRIETA, Calif.—A single-engine plane rolled upside down before crashing near a Southern California airport on the Fourth of July, killing a father and severely injuring his three sons, federal investigators said in a preliminary report.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday released the report on the crash that killed Jared Newman, 39, of Temecula and injured his sons.
Newman was at the controls of a Cessna 172N operated by a pilot school when it went down near French Valley Airport in Murrieta, about 80 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
The plane had made a touch-and-go landing on a runway when it then climbed, veered left, and at about 60 feet above the ground dropped one wing, rolled over and disappeared behind a building, according to airport surveillance video cited in the NTSB report….