DEARBORN, Mich.
— Family members of a Michigan man who survived an airplane crash that killed two of his friends are calling for a new investigation into whether he was intoxicated when he was killed.
A Michigan State Police spokeswoman said Thursday that the trooper in charge of the investigation was notified Thursday that a passenger who was a passenger in a plane crash in Vermont, Michigan, was intoxicated.
A second person on the plane, a passenger from Vermont who survived, is also in the hospital, the spokeswoman said.
Authorities are still investigating what caused the plane to hit a house and the two people who survived.
The crash occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 5.
The plane’s pilot, Richard Loomis, was a former pilot for Delta Airlines.