Federal Report Raises Questions On Plane Crash

OXFORD — (AP) There are new mysteries in a 2004 plane crash in Upstate New York that killed two Connecticut men.

A new federal report says the passenger, 40-year-old Michael Keilty of Newtown, was acting strangely in the days before the crash.

It also says he was under FBI investigation over millions of dollars he owed to lenders, and that he tried twice without success to buy life insurance policies on himself just before the flight.

The plane crashed in July of 2004 near the airport in Ticonderoga, N.Y.

Keilty and the pilot, 76-year-old Milton Marshall of Oxford, were found dead in the burned wreckage.

The report also says a seven-shot gun clip missing two bullets was found in the wreckage.

Autopsies could not determine whether the men died of injuries from the crash, or by other means. No equipment or weather problems were reported.

Federal officials expect to release another report and a probable cause of the crash in four to six months.