A training flight and a pilot engaged in an “aerobatic competition” crashed in August at northern Colorado’s Fort Morgan Municipal Airport, killing one pilot and injuring three others , according to federal investigators.

The two planes — a Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300, each carrying a pilot and a safety pilot — were trying to land on the same runway at the airport when they crashed and caught fire at about 10:40 a.m. on Aug. 31, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board .

Federal investigators said the Cessna pilot was conducting flight instrument training at the airport with a safety pilot aboard, and he made multiple radio calls to alert the airport to his arrival.

He heard two other airplanes in the traffic pattern, and that o

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