A mechanic found metal particles in an oil filter during maintenance on a small aircraft before it crashed in Central Texas, killing its pilot, federal investigators reported Tuesday.
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Major crash kills 1, injures others
One person is dead and three people are injured, after a three-vehicle car accident closed down a major Killeen road Wednesday morning.
Elms Road, near the intersection with Stefek Drive, was blocked with a swarm of emergency vehicles and at least two vehicles with heavy damage at about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday.
According to a news release received Wednesday from the Killeen Police Department, a 41-year-old man, Victor Alexander Demarest, later died from his injuries as a result of the crash.
A witness said she saw the crash as it happened from the parking lot of a nearby gas station.
Indeed, his premonition came true.
The friend told him that he suspected that mutual friend, and pilot, Bradley Guy Marzari had been killed when the 1960 Focke-Wulf FWP-149D plane he was piloting crashed in a field on private land in Killeen, approximately 2.25 miles shy of Runway 1 at Skylark Field. Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that fact not long after.
Killeen police, some of the first responders on the scene, said Marzari, a 60-year-old Belton resident, was flying from New Braunfels to Skylark Field.
âIn the aviation community, some people know a person that died in a crash, and some people donât,â Flight said via phone Tuesday. â. When you know the person it just hits you in a completely different way â it hits you much harder.â