The State - News from April 19, 1987

Cockpit recordings made in a cargo airplane that crashed near Travis Air Force Base April 8 indicate the craft was having problems with one of its four engines, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The NTSB, which is investigating the crash of the Southern Air Transport L-100 turboprop, did not disclose the details of the recordings. Spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz of the NTSB, however, told the San Francisco Examiner that one of the plane’s four engines “did not have the required power” for a touch-and-go landing, which the aircraft was believed to have been attempting just before it crashed and burned, killing all five people aboard.