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A preliminary report on the Dec. 30 airplane crash in Ohio that killed the general manager of Elite Air Service at the Branch County Airport reveals a witness heard both engines quit just before the crash.
According to media reports, the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary investigation said 46-year-old Vicksburg resident Rob Cole was piloting a 1960 twin-engine Cessna when it went nose down in southern Ohio.
Cole died on impact near the top of a hill less than seven miles from his destination at the airport at West Union, Ohio.
Investigators found fuel leaking onto the left wing of the destroyed plane at the crash site.
