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A parachute-equipped single engine airplane that crashed Thursday, killing the pilot and two passengers near Hobby Airport, was among a rare few airplanes of that type ever to be involved in a fatal accident.

Tragic last words to woman piloting a plane with her husband and his brother before she was filmed crashing and killing all three

"The parachute canopy was still stowed in its pouch inside the airframe," Tom Latson, an NTSB investigator, said Friday.

The pilot of a plane that crashed near a Houston airport halted a third attempt to land just before it plummeted to the ground, killing the female pilot, her husband, and his brother.

Audio showed that the pilot, identified as Dana Gray, 46, was told at least twice to turn around and make another attempt to land. She was also told that she was she's flying too high and has to turn around to land at Hobby Airport.