WAUSAU, Wis. (WRN) — Last month’s plane crash involving a candidate for governor was due to pilot error.
That preliminary finding from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation into loss of power on the aircraft carrying 7th District Congressman Tom Tiffany and pilot Leonard Boltz on September 12. The NTSB report found that loss of power was “due to [Boltz’s] delay in switching fuel tanks and not turning on the electric fuel boost pump,” after a full day of flying.
The two men swam to shore after Boltz made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau that evening, both suffering minor injuries.
According to the report Boltz had flown earlier from Antigo to La Crosse for a Tiffany campaign event on a full fuel tank and did not refuel before returning to Wausau.