The National Transportation Safety Board has released its probable cause report on the plane crash in North Myrtle Beach last July that killed a North Carolina couple and their granddaughter.
In July 2010, a small passenger plane, commonly known as a Piper Arrow, was on its way back to Concord, NC where it was rented from, when it crashed into a mobile home killing all three.
The NTSB says pilot Danny Carroll "lacked recent instrument or night experience" when he was faced with flying through dark skies around a storm cell. The report says "the combination of a dark dusk sky, multiple cloud ceilings, precipitation, and the distraction of maneuvering around a large convective cell, would have been challenging for a pilot with limited recent actual instrument experience."
Click here to read the report in its entirety.
Carroll, 54, his wife Raychell and their 4-year-old granddaughter Mallory Fields died in the crash.
The Piper Arrow had just taken off from Grand Strand Airport in North Myrtle Beach and was on its way back to Concord, North Carolina when it went down.
The plane slammed into a mobile home at the Creekside Mobile Home Park in Little River, but no one inside the home was seriously hurt.
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