A pilot taking selfies may have contributed to the deadly crash of a small plane in Colorado last year, federal investigators said. The pilot, Amritpal Singh, 29, and his passenger, Jatinder Singh, 31, were killed May 31 when the two-seat Cessna crashed in a wheat field shortly after takeoff from Watkins, Colo., about 25 miles east of Denver. It's not clear if the two were related.
A recording from a GoPro camera on the plane, recovered from the crash site, showed the pilot taking cellphone selfies with a flash during a nighttime takeoff shortly before the crash, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released last week.
No GoPro footage exists of the pilot's next, final flight, in which he took off again just nine minutes later. But NTSB investigators said that phone use likely contributed to the pilot becoming confused about the plane's orientation, leading him to lose control. The plane probably stalled and spun into the ground, investigators said.
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