The National Transportation Safety Board will look into the “man, the machine and the environment” as it investigates a plane crash that killed a former mayor and left the tail of the aircraft poking out of the roof of a condo building, officials said Wednesday.
Alan Lavender, 73, died when the plane crashed into the building in Methuen on approach to Lawrence Municipal Airport on Tuesday. Lavender was a former city councilor and mayor of Newburyport. None of the building’s residents were injured.
The NTSB will look at Lavender’s qualifications and training, the plane engine’s integrity, and the weather and other conditions at the time of the crash, NTSB investigator Aaron McCarter said.
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