The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its final report on the death of a North Dakota state senator who died in a plane crash in Moab, Utah, with his family on Oct. 1, 2023.
The report suggested that Rep. Doug Larsen, who formerly represented District 34 as a Republican, who was piloting the plane, experienced spatial disorientation while departing at 8:23 p.m. from Utah’s Canyonlands Regional Airport into an area with low ambient visual light.
“It is likely that the pilot neither had adequate visual references after takeoff nor monitored the airplane’s flight instruments appropriately to detect the airplane’s descent during the continuous 180° crosswind to downwind turn,” the report said….