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March 3, 2021Galt, Mo. |  By: AP

NTSB: Pilot in plane crash that killed 2 ignored ice warning


GALT, Mo. (AP) - National investigators say a pilot ignored warnings about ice and bad weather before his small plane crashed in northern Missouri last month, killing him and his passenger.

The crash on Feb. 8 near Galt in Grundy County killed 82-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre III, of Glendale, and 47-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre IV, of Sunset Hills.

The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report says the single-engine Cessna was covered with ice when it landed in Moberly.

The pilot asked for help to de-ice the plane but dismissed suggestions that the men stay in Moberly until the weather improved. The report does not say which of the men was the pilot.