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Feds: Oxygen Loss, Skipped Repairs Contributed to Virginia Jet Crash That Killed Four Feds: Oxygen Loss, Skipped Repairs Contributed to Virginia Jet Crash That Killed Four
Feds: Oxygen Loss, Skipped Repairs Contributed to Virginia Jet Crash That Killed Four A small jet carrying four people on a personal flight from Tennessee to New York flew on autopilot for nearly two hours after the pilot became unresponsive—before crashing into a Virginia mountainside at full speed, killing everyone on board, federal investigators confirmed. The Cessna Citation 560 took off from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee around 1:13 p.m. on Sunday, June 4, 2023, according to a final report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week. On board was 69-year-old pilot John K. Rumpel, a Florida businessman and licensed airline transpor…