19, 1989, when Brown was piloting a Bell 206-B helicopter, like the one that crashed Monday. Engine malfunction was cited as the cause of a crash Sept. Helwig said Brown was involved in an 'uncontrolled collision with the ground' in a Hughes 69B helicopter on July 31, 1977. His commercial pilot certificate also had been suspended for four days in 1973 for improper marking of an aircraft, FAA spokesman Roland Helwig said at the FAA Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. Brown, of East Chicago, Ind., had two previous accidents in Chicago. 'To what degree it plays in this, we don't know yet.'įederal Aviation Administration records showed the pilot, Jeffrey W. 'Weather is a factor,' said William Bruce, air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators said fog and haze were a factor in the crash. He said there would be a public graveside committal service Friday at noon at Laurel Land Funeral Home in Dallas. Vaughan's publicist, Charles Comer, said a private funeral service would be held for the family at an undisclosed time.
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