Small Plane Crashes In Ohio, Killing 4
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Small Plane Crashes In Ohio, Killing 4
January 12, 2008
LAKESIDE, Ohio—A small plane crashed in a rural residential area as its pilot prepared to land Saturday, killing four people aboard, a sheriff's department said.
The crew of the twin-engine Cessna 340 had radioed their intention to land at the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport at about noon, airport director Jack Stables said.
He did not know where the flight originated.
The two men and two women on board were killed, the State Highway Patrol said.
Stables said he watched the plane fly across a field near the airport to begin the landing pattern. Its landing gear and flaps were down, apparently in preparation for landing, he said.
"Everything seemed normal and I could hear both engines working fine," he said. "Then we never heard from them again."
The plane crashed in a rural residential area about 200 or 300 feet from a house, Stables said.
Hours later in St. Petersburg, Fla., a single-engine plane crashed into Tampa Bay while trying to land at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, killing three people aboard, authorities said.
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LAKESIDE, Ohio—A small plane crashed in a rural residential area as its pilot prepared to land Saturday, killing four people aboard, a sheriff's department said.
The crew of the twin-engine Cessna 340 had radioed their intention to land at the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport at about noon, airport director Jack Stables said.
He did not know where the flight originated.
The two men and two women on board were killed, the State Highway Patrol said.
Stables said he watched the plane fly across a field near the airport to begin the landing pattern. Its landing gear and flaps were down, apparently in preparation for landing, he said.
"Everything seemed normal and I could hear both engines working fine," he said. "Then we never heard from them again."
The plane crashed in a rural residential area about 200 or 300 feet from a house, Stables said.
Hours later in St. Petersburg, Fla., a single-engine plane crashed into Tampa Bay while trying to land at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, killing three people aboard, authorities said.
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Not wishing to speculate on particular circumstances....
There has been some truly dire weather here this last week, with storms sweeping from the Pacific NW, flash floods just outside Vegas, a town like Tewkwsbury inundated for days in N Nevada, very strong winds, California fogged in for days, Durango 100' in freezing fog (11 deg F this morning) not to mention severe turbulence in the west.
Avoiding that lot makes you feel like the ball in an original TV ping pong game! Currently in Montrose Colo. and routing Canyonlands to Prescott tomorrow.
I'm sure the weather must be much friendlier in England
Anyway pics attached
Warning! lenticular clouds over death valley
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Warning here be dragons! The California 'fence' or Sierras at Bishop, Ca., beyond which is a land of mist, fog and 'not reccomended for VFR'.
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So turning 180 deg....
The 'aircraft carrier' St George Utah in perfect conditions (numerous traffic in the pattern, arriving, departing and mixing with commercial turboprops and bizjets, about as busy as some UK public airports, all on CTAF without a glitch (or a controller).
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And a little further East...
Low cloud and freezing fog enveloping the Rockies, Durango and most of Colorado from overhead Canyonlands/Moab.
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Apologies to mods for any thread drift but it really has been a manky week for weather in much of the US
There has been some truly dire weather here this last week, with storms sweeping from the Pacific NW, flash floods just outside Vegas, a town like Tewkwsbury inundated for days in N Nevada, very strong winds, California fogged in for days, Durango 100' in freezing fog (11 deg F this morning) not to mention severe turbulence in the west.
Avoiding that lot makes you feel like the ball in an original TV ping pong game! Currently in Montrose Colo. and routing Canyonlands to Prescott tomorrow.
I'm sure the weather must be much friendlier in England
Anyway pics attached
Warning! lenticular clouds over death valley
Warning here be dragons! The California 'fence' or Sierras at Bishop, Ca., beyond which is a land of mist, fog and 'not reccomended for VFR'.
So turning 180 deg....
The 'aircraft carrier' St George Utah in perfect conditions (numerous traffic in the pattern, arriving, departing and mixing with commercial turboprops and bizjets, about as busy as some UK public airports, all on CTAF without a glitch (or a controller).
And a little further East...
Low cloud and freezing fog enveloping the Rockies, Durango and most of Colorado from overhead Canyonlands/Moab.
Apologies to mods for any thread drift but it really has been a manky week for weather in much of the US
