NTSB report on glider and airplane crash expected Monday

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Wreckage of the draw plane involved in the deadly midair pile-up in Middletown sits nearby the finish of the runway Monday Nov. 30, 2009.
By GUY KOVNER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

The National Transportation Safety Board's rough inform upon the deadly mid-air incident in Lake County will be posted upon the agency's Web site early next week, the questioner pronounced Wednesday.


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The inform will lay out the facts of the incident which killed two North Bay businessmen but will draw no conclusions, aviation incident questioner Eliott Simpson said.

He would not comment further about the case.

Harold Chouinard, 63, of Cotati as well as Robert Sean Boylan, 44, of Hidden Valley Lake were killed in the incident Saturday sunrise during Crazy Creek Air Adventures, the glider pier nearby Middletown.

Relatives as well as officials pronounced which Boylan, piloting the single-engine airplane, had towed Chouinard's glider higher as well as Chouinard had released the towline. Both pilots decided to land immediately, most expected due to strong winds, as well as were coming the frame from different directions when they collided.

Simpson, who is the lone reserve house questioner upon the case, pronounced he had been during the scene Saturday by Monday, when he returned to his office in the Los Angeles area.

A last inform will be completed within six months as well as submitted to the reserve board, which will determine the illusive cause of the collision, Simpson said.

Both aircraft have been private from the scene as well as taken to the storage trickery in Sacramento, he said.

By GUY KOVNER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
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