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By: 18th February 2010 at 18:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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Internet note posted by man linked to plane crash
By: 18th February 2010 at 18:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Everybody has a breaking point.:(
By: 20th February 2010 at 10:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Two threads merged at the OP's request.
The one in Austin calls to mind the Michael Douglas movie - Falling Down.
Very sad, both of these.
Moggy
By: 22nd March 2010 at 01:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Here's another from Saturday. I flew into the airport only two weeks ago.
WILLISTON, Fla. -- A mid-air plane collision Saturday morning left three people dead near the Marion-Levy county line.Two small planes hit each other near the Williston municipal airport. The airport is about 85 miles from Orlando.
Officials said one plane took off from Williston airport. The other was some type of experimental plane that was flying from Ocala. Investigators said the plane from Ocala was about to land at the airport.
Both planes crashed in a rural field. The crashes left a path of wreckage about half a mile wide.
At first, a woman who lives nearby didn’t know what had happened.
“I just heard a bang,” eyewitness Debbie Phillips said.Authorities said 73 year-old Lee Sentman of Marion County died in the crash. He is believed to be the pilot of the experimental plane. The other two victims names haven't been released.
Federal Aviation Administration officials are investigating crash.
By: 27th March 2010 at 05:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-There seems to be a lot of midair collisions in the USA, more than in other places. Do they not look out, transmit their position on the radio and listen for other aircraft? Or is it increased probablility due to the number of aircraft operating there?
I think it's because:
1. The US probably has more GA traffic than the rest of the world combined
2. Most fields are uncontrolled...yes, they use unicom but if the pattern is busy, accidents do happen. You're a pilot, you know it's harder to see planes in the pattern than it might seem.
Having said that, there has been 3-4 mid airs in the past couple of years.
Usually two planes on final.
I can see how it happens...youu have just got to be careful.
Could be just a bad patch of them.
By: 6th June 2010 at 17:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Very lucky but they were burned.:(
By: 18th June 2010 at 19:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-We had a fatal R-22 mishap at our local GA field two weeks ago, the first serious crash in many years at the busy GA airport.
The NTSB has said what was already evident from TV reports, the main rotor blade severed the tailboom while the solo student pilot was doing circuits.
It will be interesting to see the final report in several months.
The local helicopter school is always busy, they had 3 R-22s and two R-44s.
By: Anonymous (not verified) - 17th February 2010 at 21:12 - Edited 10th April 2020 at 19:45
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