A small plane that crashed in East Palo Alto last year, killing all three Tesla Motors employees onboard, had its propellers and engines operating normally before it hit a transmission tower and plummeted in pieces into a residential neighborhood, a federal investigative report found.
The report by the National Transportation Safety Board cites recordings made by a police gunfire detection system, which captured the plane’s final moments, in concluding that “both engines were operating near full power.”
The federal board also said both the plane’s propellers had been recovered and that “no indications of propeller failure prior to impact were found.”
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Interesting...its funny how in almost every government scandal people involved with these scandals mysteriously start having accidents.