Video captured by a Chamblee police officer’s dashcam shows a plane right before it crashed in a fiery explosion on I-285 on May 8.
The footage, obtained by Channel 2 Action News, gives a view from the officer’s car as he races toward a black plume of smoke at the crash site.
Three family members and the fiance of one of them died in the crash.
The victims were identified as Christopher, Phillip, and Greg Byrd, and Jackie Kulzer. The pilot, Greg Byrd, was a retired Buncombe County, North Carolina deputy, and father to Phillip and Christopher.
Christopher and Jackie were engaged. Jackie is a graduate of St. Pius X Catholic High School in Atlanta.
On May 19, the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report that did not reveal what caused the crash but did show that the pilot of the Piper PA-32R-30 reported normally for landing.
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