WHITESVILLE, Ky. — Federal investigators have released the final report on a 2023 plane crash in Ohio County that killed an 18-year-old flight student and his 22-year-old instructor.

The National Transportation Safety Board found the probable cause of the Sept. 27, 2023, crash to be “the flight instructor’s improper decision to continue flight into a known area of thunderstorms, which resulted in an in-flight breakup.”

The crash killed 18-year-old Connor Quisenberry of Beaver Dam and 22-year-old Timothy “Junior” McKellar, Jr. of Custer. McKellar was Quisenberry’s flight instructor. The two were flying from Bowling Green to Owensboro on a night cross-country training flight when they encountered severe weather and went down in a remote area near Whitesville.

The investigation determined

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