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Plane crash kills three
Three people died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport on Friday in the second fatal crash in the area in a week.
By By: Chris Michlewicz
Three people died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport on Friday in the second fatal crash in the area in a week.
The twin-engine Cessna 421 hit the ground and burst into flames at 3:34 p.m. shortly after take-off, said Lt. Randy Capra, public information officer for the Parker Fire Protection District. The owner and pilot of the plane was Nadia Barghelame, 20 of Loveland, who reportedly was killed. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the other two who died in Friday's crash were Craig Markley, 72 of Fort Collins and Roy Crain, 60 of Michigan; however, the Douglas County Coroner's Office has not confirmed their identities. There were no survivors.
Barghelame reportedly contacted an air traffic controller and said the plane was having engine trouble. She was given permission to make an emergency landing on a runway, but the plane took a sharp dive and crashed in a muddy field in the Meridian International Business Park, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration arrived on scene Saturday to conduct an accident investigation.
The crash site is north of E-470 near the Jamaica Street off-ramp and south of the airport.
The NTSB does not immediately announce the cause of an accident while on scene; a cause might not be determined for 12 to 18 months after the crash, the agency's Web site says. All three victims were said to be experienced pilots.
Arnold Scott, spokesman for the NTSB, was not immediately available for comment.
Due to the nature of the crash and that no identification was found on the victims, the coroner's office is attempting to identify the victims through dental records.
Paul Krysiak, 28, and James Presba, 25, were killed Dec. 10 when a Mitsubishi MU-2 crashed just south of the airport not far from where Friday's Cessna went down. The MU-2 cargo plane smashed into the First Data Corp. parking lot near South Peoria Street and Mount Belford Avenue after missing the building by about 150 yards.
Contact Chris Michlewicz at cmichlewicz@ccnewspapers.net.
The twin-engine Cessna 421 hit the ground and burst into flames at 3:34 p.m. shortly after take-off, said Lt. Randy Capra, public information officer for the Parker Fire Protection District. The owner and pilot of the plane was Nadia Barghelame, 20 of Loveland, who reportedly was killed. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the other two who died in Friday's crash were Craig Markley, 72 of Fort Collins and Roy Crain, 60 of Michigan; however, the Douglas County Coroner's Office has not confirmed their identities. There were no survivors.
Barghelame reportedly contacted an air traffic controller and said the plane was having engine trouble. She was given permission to make an emergency landing on a runway, but the plane took a sharp dive and crashed in a muddy field in the Meridian International Business Park, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration arrived on scene Saturday to conduct an accident investigation.
The crash site is north of E-470 near the Jamaica Street off-ramp and south of the airport.
The NTSB does not immediately announce the cause of an accident while on scene; a cause might not be determined for 12 to 18 months after the crash, the agency's Web site says. All three victims were said to be experienced pilots.
Arnold Scott, spokesman for the NTSB, was not immediately available for comment.
Due to the nature of the crash and that no identification was found on the victims, the coroner's office is attempting to identify the victims through dental records.
Paul Krysiak, 28, and James Presba, 25, were killed Dec. 10 when a Mitsubishi MU-2 crashed just south of the airport not far from where Friday's Cessna went down. The MU-2 cargo plane smashed into the First Data Corp. parking lot near South Peoria Street and Mount Belford Avenue after missing the building by about 150 yards.
Contact Chris Michlewicz at cmichlewicz@ccnewspapers.net.
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