BATH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - On Thursday, a corporate jet crashed in Bath Township near the Rose Lake Wildlife Research Area.

The crash of a Hawker 800XP, took the lives of all three people on board, including two customer pilots and a maintenance representative.

According to Duncan Aviation, the flight took off from Battle Creek around 5 p.m. for a “stall flight” - which is conducted at the end of a scheduled maintenance event.

Keith Byrd is the Chief Pilot at a company in Kalamazoo. He is not affiliated with Duncan Aviation, but offered News 10 his expert insight.

“In general a stall flight is where you do a wing stall. A lot of people think it’s the engine that stalls, it’s the wings that stall. That’s by getting the nose up to a point where you get so slow that the air flying over

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