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Re: National air tour accident
Posted by Ryan Keough on Fri Sep 12, 2003 09:58:57 PM
In reply top Re: National air tour accident posted by Roger Cain on Fri Sep 12, 2003 09:21:56 PM
This isn't a good thing... I hope all the damage to both pilot and plane is minimal. I think the whole idea of this National Air Tour is a wonderful thing for aviation and i'd hate to see anything negative happen. I met up with Addison Pemberton and Ben Scott at the Galesburg Stearman fly-in and both seemed to be really excited about the tour.
I don't know what it is about Iowa beanfields, but they attract planes... they certainly liked our TBM on delivery from Arizona back in '86! (good thing it happened though... required us to rebuild her right!)
Ryan K.
: Bad news from the NTSB accident site, hopefully the pilot
: is safe and the plane suffered minimal damage:
:
: IDENTIFICATION
: Regis#: 414H Make/Model: EXP Description: E
: XP- 5ATS FORD TRI MOTOR
: Date: 09/11/2003 Time: 2208
:
: Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air:
: N Missing: N
: Damage: Unknown
:
: LOCATION
: City: DES MOINES State: IA Country: U
: S
:
: DESCRIPTION
: ACFT ON NATIONAL AIR TOUR, WAS ON VECTORS TO ANKENY ARPT
: TO AVOID THE
: THUNDER STORM OVER DSM ARPT. WHEN ABOUT 6 MI S OF ANKENY
: ARPT THE PILOT
: DECLAIRED AN EMERGENCY DUE TO NUMBER 3 ENGINE. 45 SECOND
: S LATER THE PILOT
: REPORTED HE WAS MAKING AN EMERGENCY LANDING. RADAR AND
: RADIO CONTACT WAS
: LOST AT THAT TIME. SHERIFF AND EMERGENCY PERSONEL WERE
: ALERTED. ACFT
: LANDED IN A BEAN FIELD. DES MOINES, IA
:
: INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
: # Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0
: Min: 0 Unk:
: # Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0
: Min: 0 Unk:
: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0
: Min: 0 Unk:
:
: WEATHER: SPECI KDSM 111259Z 24014KT 10SM -TSRA FEW012 OVC0
: 48 22/19 A2987
:
:
:
:
: OTHER DATA
: Activity: Pleasure Phase: Cruise Operation: Ge
: neral Aviation
:
: Departed: MASON CITY Dep Date: 09/11/20
: 03 Dep. Time: 2208
: Destination: DES MOINES, IA DSM Flt Plan: UNK
: Wx Briefing: U
: Last Radio Cont: 8 MI NE DES MOINES ARPT
: Last Clearance: TURN L 350 DEG
:
: FAA FSDO: DES MOINES, IA (CE01) Entry da
: te: 09/12/2003