Crash Investigators Find Faulty Prop
A commuter plane that crashed in Georgia this week was flying with a weakened propeller blade that snapped in flight, investigators said Wednesday.
An abnormality had been found in the propeller blade during an inspection a year ago, but maintenance records showed it had been corrected, John Hammerschmidt of the National Transportation Safety Board said. However, lab tests after the crash showed the propeller blade appeared to have snapped as a result of tension.
Five of the 29 people on board the Atlantic Southeast Airlines Embraer 120 were killed when the plane went down near Carrollton on Monday on its way from Atlanta to Gulfport, Miss. Seven remained critically injured with burns Wednesday.
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