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A pilot who died with his wife in a Dec. 22 small plane crash at the Colorado Springs Airport gave an erroneous altitude report minutes before his plane went down amid heavy, freezing fog.
An air traffic controller raised concerns over Martin Anthony Riggan’s readings as he came in for a landing in a single-engine Mooney M20E aircraft accompanied by his wife, Nicole, according to a transcript of tower communications.
Riggan crashed just more than 5 minutes later, after reporting that he had missed his approach to the runway, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report issued after the crash. The transcript shows no record of further warnings about Riggan’s altitude.
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