Preliminary Report on Huntsville Accident Published
A number of eyewitnesses said the aircraft had barely climbed away from the runway before it banked hard right and crashed.

The NTSB’s preliminary report, issued last week, on the June 18 crash of an Israel Aerospace Industries Westwind II at Huntsville International Airport in Alabama revealed few clues about what caused the aircraft to bank steeply to the right just after takeoff and crash into an open field near the airport.

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