The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on their investigation into the fatal plane crash in Monterey on March 2nd that killed 4 out of 7 people in a family.
The report states that the pilot's Brother in New Hampshire received a phone call Tayne Ferris at approximately 5:38 pm, informing him that they were flying over Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the weather at Keene, NH was clearer then they expected.
Tayne Ferris told her brother they were going to fly to Keene and get the boys home in time for school the next day. The pilot, Ronald Ferris, later changed his mind and requested permission to fly to Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield.
About 6:52, the airplane's radar track was observed to turn towards the Great Barrington Airport at 2,600 feet. The airplane's last radar target observed the plane about 9 miles south of the accident site, at an altitude of 2,200 feet.
A few minutes later, the plane struck trees and terrain on the south-southeast side of Mt. Wilcox, in Beartown State Forest, approximately 7.5 miles east-northeast of GBR.
The airplane impacted and came to rest in a wooded area, at an elevation of about 1,920 feet. The NTSB web site is: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm
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