On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:26:51 -0800, john smith wrote
(in article ):



In his latest brush, Gardner was a passenger in a Cirrus SR 22 with
pilot Randy Brooks and brother Leslie. They were looking at a houseboat
from the air when the plane dipped into the water, Garfield County
public information officer Becki Bronson said.

"The plane went from 150 mph to none in about 2 seconds," Gardner told
CNN. "Within about a half a second is when we knew that things went from
a beautiful day, a beautiful afternoon, all the way to a pretty bad
situation."


I could see something like that happening. If the pilot is looking at a
houseboat and not flying the airplane, he might not realize how close to the
lake surface he is.

Well, I hope they find the plane and we get to find out more about it.

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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor