Pilot Reported Possible Engine Ice Before Crash

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Engine ice may have played a role in the crash of a single- engine plane that killed a Michigan furniture executive, a preliminary federal report said.

Christian George Wilhelm Grahl of Coldwater, Mich., reported engine problems to a Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controller in Indianapolis shortly before his 1995 Mooney M-20 crashed 5 miles west of the Gerald L. Rader Field Airport in Summersville on Dec. 7. Grahl told the controller he needed to land under visual flight rules at the nearest airport, according to a recording cited in a preliminary report by National Transportation Safety Board inspector Paul Cox.

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Pilot Reported Possible Engine Ice Before Crash

The controller recommended that Grahl land at the airport in...

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