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Published January 23, 2013, 03:40 PM

Report on Pierre plane crash points to open entrance door

A report on the fatal crash of a single-engine experimental airplane at the Pierre airport indicates that an entrance door was open 50 feet above the ground.

PIERRE (AP) — A factual basis report on the fatal crash of a single-engine experimental airplane at the Pierre airport indicates that an entrance door was open 50 feet above the ground.

The media reports that witnesses quoted in the report observed the open left "gull-wing" entrance door and saw the airplane go into a series of four up and down pitches.

Sixty-nine-year-old Paul Lee, who owned the plane, was killed in the August crash of the SQ2000. The plane that can be built from a kit.

The report is being forwarded to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters, which will determine a probable cause of the crash.

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