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Liberty University flight-school plane ran out of fuel, FAA says

A Liberty University flight-school plane that crashed in a Gladys field during a training exercise early this year didn’t have enough fuel for the flight, according to documents from the Federal Aviation Administration obtained by The News & Advance.

The crash happened in the late afternoon of Feb. 4 while the plane was en route to Lynchburg Regional Airport from the Brookneal/Campbell County Airport.

Student Jonathan Bass, 22, of Chesapeake, and instructor Bruce Barnhart, 52, of Gladys, said in handwritten statements to the FAA they were forced to crash-land the plane after it lost power twice.

Source: http://m.roanoke.com/news/virginia/liberty-university-flight-school-plane-ran-out-of-fuel-faa/article_38ff9ec6-1616-5750-a1e4-3ee6a2b31737.html?mode=jqm

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