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5:00 p.m. WARRENTON, Va. (AP) - Canadian officials are taking over theinvestigation into a deadly Memorial Day mid-air collision becausethe planes involved were owned by federal aviation andtransportation officials. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that one ofits employees owned the six-seat Beechcraft BE-25 in which twopeople were killed in the collision in Fauquier County. The medicalexaminer's office has yet to identify the two victims. The pilot of the other plane - a Piper PA-28 - is an employee ofthe Federal Aviation Administration. Seventy-year-old Thomas Provenwas listed in good condition at a local hospital Tuesday. Hedeclined interview requests. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman and FAA Acting Administrator MichaelHuerta requested that the Transportation Safety Board of Canadaconduct this investigation. --- 1:17 p.m. WARRENTON, Va. (AP) - Federal aviation officials are continuingtheir investigation into the mid-air collision of two small,private planes that killed two people and injured a third inFauquier County. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says one of theplanes caught fire after Monday's collision. The planes went downabout a mile apart, and debris was scattered between the two crashsites. Authorities say they recovered two bodies from a six-seat aircraft.The pilot of the second plane, 70-year-old Thomas R. Proven, ofBroad Run, was transported to Mary Washington Hospital inFredericksburg. Mary Washington Healthcare spokeswoman Debbie McInnis said Provenwas listed in good condition on Tuesday afternoon, but could notelaborate on the extent of his injuries. She said Proven hasdeclined interview requests. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says aPiper PA-28 operated by the injured pilot appeared to be headed tothe Warrenton-Fauquier airport. State police said the planedeparted from Culpeper Regional Airport. Investigators from the FAA and the National Transportation SafetyBoard are investigating. Fauquier resident Debbie Underwood told The Free Lance-Star(bit.ly/KNPKUl ) that she and her daughter were enjoyingMemorial Day with family when she saw the planes crash into eachother. "They looked like they were going to do an aerial," said Underwood,who frequently sees small planes from the nearby Flying Circusdoing stunts. Bill Iames was in his garage when he heard a bang and "looked outthe window and saw smoke coming up" from a wooded area across theroad. He and others ran to the crash scene but the plane was acrumpled mass of burning debris. "You couldn't even tell it was a plane," Iames said. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Screw Conveyor , Powder Mixing Machine Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Food Grinding Machine.
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