The flight that crashed in Chamberlain, South Dakota last month, killing nine people and injuring three others, lasted all of two minutes. At least that’s when the airplane’s data recorder stopped functioning, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which released a preliminary report into the November 30th incident.
The pilot was fatally injured in the crash, along with eight passengers who were all members of an extended Idaho family: Jim Hansen Sr., his sons, Jim and Kirk Hansen, Kirk Hansen’s children, Stockton and Logan; his sons-in-law, Kyle Naylor and Tyson Dennert; and Jim Hansen’s son, Jake, and grandson, Houston. The family was returning from a hunting trip in South Dakota.