Plane descended too low prior to crash | News, Sports, Jobs – Evening Observer

A rented plane carrying three Warren County residents descended too low while on its final approach to Jamestown’s airport when it struck the tops of trees and crashed a half-mile from the runway nearly two years ago.

The National Transportation Safety Board this week issued its final report on the Nov. 1, 2020, crash of a Grumman American GA-7. Pilot Alan Fuller, 65 of Warren, and two passengers, Valerie Holmes, 47 of Youngsville, and Linda Edwards, 62 of Pittsfield, died as a result of the accident.

In its nine-page report, the NTSB stated the twin-engine plane had continued below the minimum descent altitude a mile from runway 25 at Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport resulting in the “controlled flight into terrain.” A review of the wreckage path was consistent with a gradual descent into the trees, the agency said.

Sharon Wagner lost two siblings in the crash, Fuller and Edwards, while Holmes was a longtime family friend. Wagner told The Post-Journal her brother was a “very…

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