DENVER (CBS4) – A cellphone may have played a role in a deadly plane crash in Adams County. 
 
 The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on the May 2014 crash in which two people were killed when the plane went down near the Front Range Airport in Watkins. 
 
 The NTSB says the plane’s occupants were taking selfies on board. The report says the cause of the crash may have been a case of distracted flying. 
 
 Investigators found a GoPro camera in the crash debris. The video from the camera showed the pilot and his passenger taking selfies at low altitudes. 
 
 The Cessna 150 went down in a field two miles from Front Range Airport while doing nighttime takeoffs and landings, according to the NTSB report. 
 
 “Pilot and passengers were taking self-photographs with their cellphones,” the report states. 
 
 The pilot and owner of the plane was 29-year-old Amritpal Singh of Aurora. Jeff Price had been one of his professors at Metro State University. He says Singh loved to fly and the aviation department newsletter had done a story about his death. 
 
 The NTSB report stated those in the plane were also using the camera’s flash function at night. Price says that can be distracting and especially dangerous at low altitudes. 
 
 Ironically, Price’s former student’s love of aviation may now turn into a cautionary tale of the dangers of using a cellphone for taking photos while flying. 
 
 Price said he was once flying a plane when somebody in the cockpit took a flash picture. He said he thought it was lightning and it greatly startled him. ||||| Mr Jeffrey Charles Price Aerospace Science 
 
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 ||||| The plane that crashed, killing two people, on Saturday, May 31, 2014. (Photo provided by the Adams County Sheriff's Office via Twitter) 
 
 "Selfies" likely contributed to a single-engine plane crash east of Denver last May that killed two people, federal investigators said in a report released last week. 
 
 The National Transportation Safety Board said a GoPro video camera was found near the plane's wreckage in Watkins, about 25 miles east of Denver. Recordings on the device showed several flights where the pilot and his passengers were taking "self-photographs" with their cellphones. 
 
 In one recording, the pilot was captured using the flash at night to take selfies during the plane's intitial climb and flight, the NTSB said. The deadly flight itself was not captured on the GoPro. 
 
 "Post-accident examination of the airplane did not reveal any pre-impact anomalies that would have precluded normal operation," the NTSB said in their report, released Friday. "Based on the wreckage distribution, which was consistent with a high-speed impact, and the degraded visual reference conditions, it is likely that the pilot experienced spatial disorientation and lost control of the airplane." 
 
 Investigators found that the plane's crash was likely caused by an aerodynamic stall and "subsequent spin into terrain." 
 
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 "It is likely that cell phone use during the accident flight distracted the pilot and contributed to the development of spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control," the report says. 
 
 Family members said Amritpal Singh, 29, was flying the plane when it crashed, killing him. The aircraft was registered to Singh. 
 
 The plane, a Cessna-150 two-seater built in 1970, took off just after midnight on May 31, 2014 from Front Range Airport in Adams County. It was reported missing by Singh's family at 3:45 a.m. and the plane's wreckage was found at about 7:30 a.m. 
 
 Singh's family said the passenger killed in the crash was Jatinder Singh, 31. a musician in town for a concert at Adams City High School and that Amritpal Singh was giving airplane rides to some of the people in town for the concert. 
 
 The plane crashed in an open field, leaving it in a mangled ball. 
 
 "The airplane impacted a field and bounced one time before it came to rest upright," the NTSB said. 
 
 Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul
– This may rank as one of the deadlier selfies-that-kill stories: The photos likely contributed to not one person's death, but two. The NTSB report on a May 31 plane crash in Watkins, Colo., cites recordings from a GoPro camera found at the scene. They show pilot Amritpal Singh, 29, and his passenger using their cellphones to take selfies. The report indicates that the phones' flashes disoriented Singh (it was sometime after 12:30am); he then lost control of the plane, reports KUSA-TV. A portion of the report via the Denver Post: "Post-accident examination of the airplane did not reveal any pre-impact anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. Based on the wreckage distribution ... and the degraded visual reference conditions, it is likely that the pilot experienced spatial disorientation and lost control of the airplane." CBS Denver notes the selfies were taken at low altitudes, and speaks with an aviation security expert who knew Singh. Jeff Price says that a camera flash can be particularly problematic at those altitudes. He recounts being in the cockpit once when a flash went off; it was as jarring as lightning, he says. (Read about another deadly selfie attempt involving a train.)