The pilot flying the small plane that crashed on a highway in Dartmouth, Massachusetts last month was trying to return to the airport, according to a preliminary report from the NTSB.

Tom Perkins, 68, and his 66-year-old wife, Agatha, of Middletown, Rhode Island, died when their single engine plane crashed onto Route 195 on October 13 and burst into flames.

According to investigators, shortly after taking off from New Bedford Airport for Kenosha, Wisconsin at 8:05 a.m., the pilot told air traffic control he would be returning to the airport, and that he did not need assistance. The pilot was cleared to land.

Low altitude alert

About a minute later, the controller provided the pilot with a low altitude alert. "Shortly after, the pilot made an unintelligible exclamation. There were n

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