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The same plane was involved in a near-accident in July 2016, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report. The pilot lost control of the plane after taking off from an airport in Byron, California, creating a stall followed by several spins.The Beech 65-A90 sustained \"substantial damage\" but the 14 sky divers and pilot were not injured.

Achal Asawa, 29, was on the aircraft during the near-accident in 2016 and published video of the incident to his Youtube page.

\"It was very scary,\" Asawa said. \"It's traumatizing to think and internalize that your life is about to end. Everyone who was in the plane then was traumatized for months.\"

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In 2008, the NTSB released a report on recurring issues with skydiving incidents, recommending the FAA to improve its rules on pilot training and aircraft maintenance.

These recommendations “have not been acted on by the FAA,\" NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy said Monday at a news conference in Honolulu.

In a response to Homendy’s statement, the FAA told ABC News “The FAA takes NTSB recommendations very seriously, and implemented a number of changes to address recommendations the NTSB made about parachuting operations.”

The NTSB's investigative staff is conducting interviews with employees, independent contractors, and witnesses and are asking for the public's help in providing video and photo documentation of the specific aircraft's front and rear views.

\"Our goal at the NTSB is 0 accidents, 0 deaths, and 0 injuries,\" Homendy told reporters. \"There is an inherent risk to parachuting and there are measures that you take to mitigate that risk. But paying passengers should be able to count on an airworthy plane, an adequately trained pilot, a safe operator and adequate federal oversight of those operations.\"

There was a more recent military plane crash with more casualties: a C-130 crash in Mississippi in July 2017 that killed 16.

Sixteen people were also killed in a hot air balloon accident in Texas in July 2016.

ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway, Amanda Maile, Matt Stone, Alex Faul, Matt Foster, Christine Theodorou, and Lataya Rothmiller contributed to this report.

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