The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report on a fatal plane crash June 10 at the Williamson County Regional Airport.
The report echoes what investigators were able to say over the weekend - that the Cirrus SR-22 crashed during a routine recertification flight for pilot John Alleman.
Air traffic controllers in Marion told the NTSB the pilot had been performing touch and go maneuvers before requesting permission to climb to three-thousand feet to practice landing after a simulated engine failure. During that procedure, an air traffic controller saw the plane descend in a left turn. As the aircraft approached the runway, the controller observed its right wing lift, the airplane stall, and crash into the ground.
NTSB investigators say they found evidence that the right wing impacted the ground first, and the debris field stretched roughly 240 feet.
Alleman was killed in Friday's accident, while flight instructor Todd Greiner was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
Some witnesses reported seeing a parachute during the crash. But the NTSB says the parachute - which comes with the plane as a safety feature - deployed as a result of the crash.
A final report into the probable cause of the accident typically takes several months to a year to complete.
