Pilot Indicted in Crash of Cessna Twin

Stephen Pope

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 09:54 PM ET

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New Hampshire pilot Stephen Fay was indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the New Year’s Day 2011 crash of a Cessna 310 that killed his daughter.
Prosecutors charged that Fay piloted the twin-engine plane without a multiengine rating and despite warnings, exhibiting "wanton or reckless conduct" by flying at night with a passenger.
Fay's single-engine pilot certificate had been suspended in March 2011, and the aircraft itself was previously grounded after he purchased it from a salvage yard.

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A New Hampshire pilot was indicted on Friday on charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the New Year’s Day 2011 crash of a Cessna 310 that killed his daughter.

A grand jury indicted Stephen Fay, 57, for the death of Jessica Malin after it was determined that Fay was piloting his twin-engine Cessna without a multiengine rating when it crashed on a nighttime approach to Runway 19 at Orange Municipal Airport in western Massachusetts.