NTSB releases preliminary report on deadly plane crash near Albertville

By Jonathan Grass Oct 8, 2026 | 5:55 PM

ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary findings into the plane crash that took the life of a man known as the “face of Albertville Regional Airport.” Doug Emge was piloting what the NTSB described as an “experimental amateur-built RV-4, N469TW” when he crashed in the Whiton community near the […]