NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A spokesman for the FFA says four-seat airplane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain shortly after taking off from Lakefront Airport.
Lynn Lunsford says the pilot notified controllers shortly after he was airborne that he was having engine trouble. The single-engine plane hit the lake at 10:38 a.m. Sunday.
Lunsford said the pilot pulled the emergency parachute that is built into the plane and notified the airport moments later that he was OK.
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