Officials say the pilot-in-command 'acted with gross negligence because he knew that he was not competent to safely fly an aircraft.'
One person is dead and another person is injured after a plane crash on Wednesday afternoon in Lehigh County., leaving a student pilot dead, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The indictment alleges McPherson crashed the plane one minute after taking off from Queen City Municipal Airport in Allentown.Prosecutors say McPherson had two prior accidents and nearly had a third accident, and he failed a reexamination for his pilot's certificate for a "lack of demonstrated competence" in 2021.
The 40 additional charges stem from flights that McPherson conducted between Oct. 12, 2021 and Sept. 20, 2022. McPherson was the pilot-in-command during those flights while not possessing an FAA pilot's certificate permitting him to do so, officials said.
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