Utah plane crash was likely caused by the pilot, a North Dakota lawmaker, becoming disoriented while taking off at night without runway lights, federal aviation investigators said.

The pilot did not use runway or landing lights after takeoff, resulting in his spatial disorientation and the eventual crash.

Dark conditions, failure to monitor instrument panel cited as likely causes behind 2023 crash that took the lives of a North ...

It is likely that the pilot (Larsen) neither had adequate visual references after takeoff nor monitored the airplane’s flight ...