LINCOLN, Neb.—Federal officials are blaming a fatal Nebraska plane crash on bad weather and a pilot who used pot.
A National Transportation Safety Board report says there were thunderstorms in the North Platte area when the plane took off on June 5. Wreckage of the single-engine plane was found the next day a few dozen miles east, in Custer County.
Killed in the crash was the pilot, 39-year-old Stanley Dunn of Fort Collins, Colo., who was flying alone.
He was not rated to fly in bad weather, nor was his plane equipped with the adequate instruments.
The NTSB says autopsy tests showed Dunn had used marijuana before the crash. A small amount was found in the wreckage.
Dunn was flying to an airport near Chicago for an aerobatics competition.
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