By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

A preliminary report released late Wednesday, June 6, by the National Transportation Safety Board on the fatal plane crash says the pilot called “Mayday” three times and said “canopy” before the plane went down, killing both the pilot and passenger.

Additionally, the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether the operations of the jets broke federal regulations.

A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report on the fatal crash of a Soviet-era Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros jet, shown here, gave no definitive cause of the May 18 accident. Photo Courtesy of BC Police Department

No definitive cause of the May 18 accident a half mile northwest of the Boulder City Municipal Airport was given in the report, which came largely from witness testimony from the passenger in a second jet.

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