DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A federal aviation investigation into an early April plane crash that killed an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student and his flight instructor found that another university plane had a crack on a bolt attachment within its wing.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in an investigative update that it had inspected the bolt hole of the second plane between April 18 and 19. Officials said the second plane was used exclusively to train students.
NTSB officials also inspected nine other similar planes looking for cracks on the same bolt hole, but did not find any.