The helicopter that crashed into a canal in late December near Miami, killing a 71-year-old pilot and hospitalizing his daughter, broke into two with the tail landing hundreds of feet away from the fuselage, according to a recently released National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report.
Clement Zanzuri and his daughter, Jordan Ann Zanzuri, 27, took off from Miami Executive Airport about 10:30 a.m. Dec. 27 to drop off her brother at Page Field Airport near Fort Myers, she told NTSB investigators. After dropping off the brother, the Zanzuris were on the ground for about half an hour before they flew back to the Miami area.
“She further stated that the return flight was normal, and she did not notice anything,” the NTSB said in the report released Friday. But when they were about 2 miles west of Miami Executive Airport, 12800 SW 145th Ave., the chopper “yawed to the right and then began spinning out of control.”
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