PALMER — Witnesses to a late September plane crash that killed a Palmer pilot heard the Cessna 206 engine sputter after takeoff, just before the plane went down, according to a new federal report.

The engine sputters, then goes silent. From that moment, there are only 74 seconds to react, choose a landing spot, and fight ...

We were somewhere over the Venezuelan jungle when the cabin of our aircraft started filling with smoke. It was a six-seater plane with one engine at the front and another at the back, and the front ...