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Report gives last moments of plane crash
http://www.courant.com/news/local/st...nes-local-wire
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Preliminary reports show two men from a New Hampshire company killed two weeks ago in a plane crash in Virginia had trouble seeing the ground as they tried to land in misty rain and fog. Killed were Robert Baldwin, president and CEO of Qroe Companies of Derry; and David Brown of West Hartford, Conn., the land preservation and development company's regional director. The single-engine Beechcraft took off June 14 from Nashua bound for the private Bundoran Airport next to Bundoran Farm, a 2,300-acre preservation development the company is overseeing near Charlottesville. According to the report, Brown, the pilot, had been circling above the airfield, but reported to air traffic controllers that he could not see the ground as he descended. "It's a little too cloudy at the moment," the report quoted Brown, talking to an air traffic controller. Soon afterward, the controller offered to guide Brown to a lower altitude nearby. Brown turned him down. "Actually the field is directly under me if I could .... spiral down," he said. The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane was running normally and there was no evidence it hit anything before crashing around 11 a.m. Brown, a certified commercial pilot, had made 25 to 30 landings at Bundoran Airport, but had never landed during rain, the report said. "It just sounds like he drove the airplane right into the ground and didn't see it," said Royce Rankin, an air traffic controller and manager of Nashua Municipal Airport, who read the report. "But we don't know. Nobody will ever know." The report also quotes a Bundoran site manager who said he assumed Brown would land at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, about 15 miles away, because of the clouds. The manager said he left a message for Brown offering to pick them up or arrange for a car rental in Charlottesville, but wasn't sure if the message was received. |
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Report gives last moments of plane crash
A subset of get-home-itis.
Bob Gardner "R.L." wrote in message . com... http://www.courant.com/news/local/st...nes-local-wire CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Preliminary reports show two men from a New Hampshire company killed two weeks ago in a plane crash in Virginia had trouble seeing the ground as they tried to land in misty rain and fog. Killed were Robert Baldwin, president and CEO of Qroe Companies of Derry; and David Brown of West Hartford, Conn., the land preservation and development company's regional director. The single-engine Beechcraft took off June 14 from Nashua bound for the private Bundoran Airport next to Bundoran Farm, a 2,300-acre preservation development the company is overseeing near Charlottesville. According to the report, Brown, the pilot, had been circling above the airfield, but reported to air traffic controllers that he could not see the ground as he descended. "It's a little too cloudy at the moment," the report quoted Brown, talking to an air traffic controller. Soon afterward, the controller offered to guide Brown to a lower altitude nearby. Brown turned him down. "Actually the field is directly under me if I could ... spiral down," he said. The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane was running normally and there was no evidence it hit anything before crashing around 11 a.m. Brown, a certified commercial pilot, had made 25 to 30 landings at Bundoran Airport, but had never landed during rain, the report said. "It just sounds like he drove the airplane right into the ground and didn't see it," said Royce Rankin, an air traffic controller and manager of Nashua Municipal Airport, who read the report. "But we don't know. Nobody will ever know." The report also quotes a Bundoran site manager who said he assumed Brown would land at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, about 15 miles away, because of the clouds. The manager said he left a message for Brown offering to pick them up or arrange for a car rental in Charlottesville, but wasn't sure if the message was received. |
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Report gives last moments of plane crash
R.L. wrote:
"Actually the field is directly under me if I could ... spiral down," he said. Wow. Who needs a published instrument approach, my GPS says I'm right over the airport. |
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Report gives last moments of plane crash
Too CHEAP to hire a professional pilot and kep him trained!
Karl "Curator" N185KG "Bob Gardner" wrote in message . .. A subset of get-home-itis. Bob Gardner "R.L." wrote in message . com... http://www.courant.com/news/local/st...nes-local-wire CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Preliminary reports show two men from a New Hampshire company killed two weeks ago in a plane crash in Virginia had trouble seeing the ground as they tried to land in misty rain and fog. Killed were Robert Baldwin, president and CEO of Qroe Companies of Derry; and David Brown of West Hartford, Conn., the land preservation and |
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Report gives last moments of plane crash
Karl, tsk, tsk... Us entrepranoor types don't need no steenkin
professional pilot... We have money which means we are smarter than everyone else.. If you were an entrepranoor you would have known that, of course... denny karl gruber wrote: Too CHEAP to hire a professional pilot and kep him trained! Karl "Curator" N185KG |
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