Fiery crash that killed 4 north of Seattle was test flight on plane leased from Alaska company

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Raisbeck Engineering was leasing the Cessna Grand Caravan 208B EX from Copper Mountain Aviation of Alaska to collect “baseline aircraft performance data,” according to Raisbeck’s president, Hal Chrisman.

The crew included “two highly experienced test pilots” who both had over 10,000 flight hours, a flight test director and an instrumentation engineer, according to the statement.

“I had just witnessed a plane catastrophe of some sort, this plane is coming down and it comes spiraling down,” Ken Baxter told the news outlet.The plane crashed into a field in an area with rough terrain, vegetation and irrigation canals that made it “difficult to access,” fire officials told KIRO-TV.The medical examiner will identify the four people.

 

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