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Video Shows Low-Flying Piper Aerostar Twin Just Before Crash

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Key Takeaways:

  • A Piper Aerostar twin crashed in a Colorado neighborhood, killing its pilot, after performing extreme low-level and "aerobatic maneuvers."
  • Amateur video captured the plane flying dangerously low over homes moments before it crashed in a fireball.
  • Accident investigators are reviewing the video, with speculation from a former NTSB official that the pilot likely knew the area and may have been flying over his own or a friend's house.
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Accident investigators are reviewing amateur video that shows a Piper Aerostar twin performing extreme low-level maneuvers over a Colorado neighborhood moments before crashing.

The pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was killed instantly when the Piper crashed in a fireball next to homes on the outskirts of Aurora. Nobody on the ground was hurt.

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