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The National Transportation Safety Board releases a preliminary report on a small plane crash into the Platte River near Fremont last month that took the lives of the three people on board, the pilot and two passengers.
The report says the Cessna 180 hit power lines over the river.
The report also says after the pilot and his wife landed at the Fremont airport after a flight from Kansas, the wife told the pilot it was too dark to fly up the Platte River after the three men decided to take another flight.
The crash took the lives of 43-year - old Daniel Williams of Moundridge, Kansas, the pilot, and two Fremont men: 50-year -old Jeff Bittinger and 48-year -old Randy Amrein.
The two passengers who died were originally at the airport to pick up the pilot and his wife.
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