CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report into a small plane crash during an instruction flight that killed both the pilot-in-training and the flight instructor near Centennial Airport earlier this month.

Two people onboard the Beech P35 aircraft — identified as Perry “Matt” Feeney, 52, of Arvada, and Lee “Rob” Hill, 64, of Greenwood Village — were killed when their plane impacted a paved driveway of an industrial facility about a mile southeast of the airport the morning of Sept. 5 . Figure 1 ADS-B Data Plots with Accident Site (triangle)

The NTSB stated that after a stop-and-go landing at the airport around 6:20 a.m., the aircraft began descending, but no distress calls were made.

Witnesses reported hearing the engine stop and seeing

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