FL: Pilots Overlooked Crashed Plane at Williston Airport

April 18, 2017

More than a dozen planes took off after a fatal Cessna crash, but it wasn’t reported until the following afternoon.

The vintage private plane that crashed Saturday afternoon at the Williston Municipal Airport, killing all four people aboard, wasn’t noticed by more than 20 pilots who flew out of the same airport later that day and was only reported to emergency responders 21 hours later.

Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene early Monday. The identities of those who died have not yet been confirmed. The 1948 Cessna 170 was registered to Nathan Enders.

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