this horrific plane crash into a parking
lot near Hobby Airport killed three
people including a mother who was flying
the plane well nearly three years later
we're learning more about the factors
contributing to this crash including
problems with the landing instructions
that the woman received tonight
investigators realizin bomb takes you
inside the air traffic control tower on
the day of this crash she discovered
proper procedures were not followed and
he's revealing what federal
investigators found in their final
report she made sure that everything was
perfect in June 2016 46 year-old Dana
gray her husband Tony and his brother
Jerry were on a mission Jerry and Tony's
dad
and was in the hospital in Houston the
plan was for Dana gray a pilot with more
than 300 hours experience to fly the
trio from their home in Oklahoma to
Houston hobby
that's the thing about hobby it can be a
busy commercial airport
unfortunately these controllers at
Houston hobby don't don't have the
training that we had years ago in
sequencing and spacing yeah and actually
I might end up sequencing you behind
that traffic it's not four miles a
minute since big planes fly faster than
small planes spacing is critical and in
this situation a repetitive problem I
have it behind you just go around within
seconds of first contact with pilot Dana
gray Hobie's tower disregards not only a
best practice but a written letter of
agreement compliance for that letter of
agreement as mandatory that document
mandates that miss landing so-called
go-arounds be transferred to another set
of air traffic controllers across town
who specialized in sequencing planes for
landing but they didn't do it
I'm just getting goose bumps again just
thinking of it
I killed my family they killed my family
three separate hobby air traffic
controllers one of them in training gave
pilot Dana gray complicated confusing
even conflicting landing instructions
make a turn left heading 30 degrees
that's the trainee controller telling
great a circle back left during her
first go-around but seconds later a
different voice now the trainer wonders
why she's headed left if you want to
follow the pilot is ultimately in
command of their aircraft
if they can't comply with ATC
instructions they are to tell the
controller that after 16 minutes three
go arounds and a shift change
now a third hobby controller pilot and
tower are just unable to come together
for a safe landing she bends that thing
over and goes straight into the parking
lot the NTSB faulted both the pilot and
hobby air traffic controllers for the
crash that killed the grades I didn't
understand you know all the runaround
and the directions and why it still to
this day I'm not sure why Channel 2
investigates found an NTSB interview
with a hobby tower manager that sheds
light James King clerk said quote he
could not explain recent issues at hobby
but found some people quote weren't
engaged like they should have been he
graded hobby tower management a C - C -
King Clare was then transferred he now
works in Atlanta home of the busiest
airport in the world until this happens
to you you don't really realize how
important their job is
we asked but the FAA won't tell us if
hobbies tower has made changes since
this accident you can read their
statement about how safe hobby is on
click2houston.com as well as the NTS
b--'s report
jo eliza mom KPRC Channel 2 News