Overview
- The NTSB is leading the investigation into the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport takeoff crash with assistance from the FAA and plans to issue initial findings in roughly four weeks.
- Officials have named the six victims as pilots Joseph Maxin and Timothy Blake along with James Weller, Veronica Weller, John Weller and Maria Weller.
- The twin-engine Cessna 441 went down seven minutes after departure, plunging into a densely wooded area two miles east of the runway.
- Howland Township fire crews, the Youngstown Air Reserve Station and hazmat teams navigated difficult terrain to extinguish the blaze and recover all aboard.
- FAA data shows this marked Ohio’s seventh small-aircraft crash in a year and stands as the deadliest aviation accident in Trumbull County history.