Plane permit a forgery, says U.S.

A private airplane that crashed on takeoff July 2, 2014, at the Boone County Regional Airport had a forged certificate of airworthiness, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. "There was a Special Airworthiness Certificate," investigator Arnold Scott said. "It looked genuine, but it was a forgery. It was not from an FAA office, and the inspector who signed it does not exist."

According to the safety board report, there was water in the fuel line of one of the two engines on the 1965 Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche. A sample from the service truck at the airport found no water in the fuel.

Witnesses and surveillance camera footage indicated the plane wasn't serviced before takeoff, although another pilot told Atiyeh that he should "sump his fuel tanks and to open the fuel drains before each and every flight because the fuel caps were susceptible to allowing water to get into the fuel tanks."

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