The single-engine aircraft that crashed in North Lindenhurst earlier this month, killing one person and injuring two others, had smoke in the cockpit during a flight two months earlier, according to a preliminary crash report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Shortly before the March 5 crash, the pilot issued mayday calls after reporting a similar condition in the cockpit.
The NTSB report does not come to any conclusions on what caused the plane to go down as it was returning to Republic Airport.
Plane in Lindenhurst crash had smoke in cockpit during earlier flight
