On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:08:43 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:


than when impacting the ground in the desert
out west.

Or the piney woods here in New Hampshire. (How many years did it take
to find that biz jet that crashed while figuring to land at Lebanon
NH? Three? Four?)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Three, and the guy who found it wasn't looking for it. I find it
difficult to understand how they could have missed it all those years
because it was almost directly under the IFR approach to Lebanon.
Right where you'd expect it to be if they were making the approach and
misjudged their location and descended too early. Hit rising terrain
and disappeared into a jungle of broken trees.

The problem was that the previous winter we had a horrendous ice
storm, the likes of which you would never see in a lifetime of living
up here. Three or four inches of ice developed on all trees above a
certain altitude. This snapped trees in half and created a landscape
that hasn't been seen since WWI in many areas. It was into one of
these areas that the hapless Learjet was lost.

Three years later a forester discovered it by literally walking into
it when surveying for logging for the land owners.

It had a cockpit voice recorder and the pilot's voices were still on
it. They did NOT, however, have an ELT and I understand that now
light jets are being required to install them. I also understand that
this Learjet crash is the reason they are now being required.

Corky Scott