Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday that they had not found any indication of structural failure in the plane involved in a deadly crash Monday morning in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
The NTSB, which is investigating the cause of the crash with the Federal Aviation Administration, briefed reporters on the progress that had been made.
"We currently have no indication that there was any type of structural failure with the aircraft," explained investigator Todd Gunther. "Tomorrow's activities will be going through the cockpit of the aircraft."
Gunther elaborated, saying crews would be checking to see if aspects of the flight control system were functioning properly.
Also on Tuesday, police identified 62-year-old Bruce Anderson of Kingston as the passenger who died in the crash. Seventy-seven-year-old pilot David Ingalls, also of Kingston, was identified by officials Monday.
Ingalls owned the Cessna 180, which had stopped at Hampton Airfield to refuel.
Anderson was a friend of Ingalls and owned Sunrise Tree Service in Kingston.
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Witnesses described the motion of the plane Monday, saying it appeared to be moving normally while trying to take off until the nose pitched upward.
Then, they say, it lost speed and dropped from the sky.
Because the plane is a general aviation aircraft, Gunther explained, the Cessna 180 does not have any recording devices.
