COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — In an air traffic control (ATC) audio obtained by KOAA, multiple “Mayday” calls can be heard just seconds before a small single engine plane crashed on Powers Boulevard.

The plane was cleared for takeoff from the Colorado Springs Airport (COS) around 4:06 a.m. Wednesday morning. It seemed to have taken off around 4:08 a.m. and radioed in that they climbed to 6,500 feet.

Minutes later, at 4:12 a.m., a distress call is heard over the ATC audio.

“Mayday, mayday, mayday,” the pilot said before repeating a second time. “Mayday, mayday, mayday.”

About 25 seconds later, the air traffic controller responded, “Did someone call mayday?”

A few more seconds lapse before the air traffic controller calls out the plane's tail number, N999AD, and asks the pilot to ide

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