The Nation - News from March 16, 1988
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An instructor’s failure to keep his plane out of restricted airspace on a student training flight was the primary cause of a 1987 collision that killed 10 people in Utah, a federal panel concluded. The single-engine training plane and a SkyWest commuter plane collided near Kearns, Utah, on Jan. 15, 1987, while making an approach to Salt Lake City International Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board absolved the air traffic controller handling the SkyWest plane. The other aircraft, a Mooney M-20C, was flying under visual flight rules and was not under the direction of air traffic control.
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