GYROPLANE CRASH REPORT DOES NOT CITE CAUSE

From: Roanoke Times & World News | Date: October 23, 2007| Author: Shawna Morrison shawna.morrison@roanoke.com 381-1665 | Copyright information

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on a gyroplane crash that killed a Christiansburg woman and seriously injured a Blacksburg man early this month.

While not citing a definitive cause of the crash, the report does detail communication between the gyroplane's pilot, Ranson Jerome "Randy" Pelt Jr., and another pilot before the crash in a Blacksburg neighborhood on the afternoon of Oct. 6.

An airplane pilot who had transmitted his intention ...