Another plane down

A Cherokee with four persons on board when down just after take off from
Harrisburg Capital City Airport (my home base) Runway 26 earlier this
afternoon. Details are sketchy, at best. I just returned from the FBO at
that airport and folks there can say very little about this incident.
Here is a preliminary news report:
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4651740/detail.html

I'll post further details as they become available.
Arnold Sten

A Cherokee with four persons on board when down just after take off from
Harrisburg Capital City Airport (my home base) Runway 26 earlier this
afternoon. Details are sketchy, at best. I just returned from the FBO at
that airport and folks there can say very little about this incident.
Here is a preliminary news report:
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4651740/detail.html

I'll post further details as they become available.

Awful. Looks like three of the four aboard are dead, with only the
pilot surviving.

I thought I was witnessing a similar crash today, here in Iowa City.
My son and I were at a local store, around the corner from the inn,
just east of the departure end of Rwy 36.

Inexplicably, I looked up to hear/see a 182RG departing over my head.
With the 90-degree winds firmly out of the SOUTH, this guy was clearly
taking off with a fairly brisk tailwind.

Worse, Rwy 36 is only 2500 feet long now (with our newly displaced
threshhold) and departs into steeply rising terrain and downtown. As
he staggered over us, his wings were rocking and it looked to me like
he was steering to the west to avoid hitting the University of Iowa
Hospital -- but then I lost sight of him.

We both waited for the (seemingly inevitable) crash, but none came. He
apparently wobbled his way into the sky, probably scaring the bejeezus
out of himself, his passengers, and a few folks downtown.

Scary.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy. Hopefully, all of us can all learn from his misfortune, once
the full NTSB report comes out.

WOW,
Didn't sound cheap to me! My thoughts and prayers go out to him, I know
he must need them about now.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Arnold Sten" wrote in message
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NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy. Hopefully, all of us can all learn from his misfortune, once the
full NTSB report comes out.

"W P Dixon" wrote in message
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"Arnold Sten" wrote in message
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NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy.

Didn't sound cheap to me! My thoughts and prayers go out to him, I know
he must need them about now.

I assume that the comment about "cheap lessons" was directed at the takeoff
at Iowa City airport Jay described, not the accident that motivated this
thread.

Pete

Arnold Sten wrote:

NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy. Hopefully, all of us can all learn from his misfortune, once
the full NTSB report comes out.

Nobody perished in the event that was referred to with the "cheap lessons"
comment. It referred to an account that Jay Honeck gave of a plane
departing on a short runway toward rising terrain and obstacles with a
tailwind.

Were you responding to Arnolds post, or Jays post?
If you don't include at least a portion of the post that you are
addressing, then your post is meaningless as we don't know what you are
responding to!

Tony
--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article .com,
"NVArt" wrote:

Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

tony roberts wrote:

If you don't include at least a portion of the post that you are
addressing, then your post is meaningless as we don't know what you are
responding to!

Quoting a small amount of relevant material is always a good idea, but
viewing the messages as a thread in a threaded newsreader makes it clear
what post was being referred to.

Quoting a small amount of relevant material is always a good idea, but
viewing the messages as a thread in a threaded newsreader makes it clear
what post was being referred to.

Only if the preceding message has actually =arrived= at that particular
server (they often arrive out of sequence for technical reasons). Also,
not all newsreaders thread properly (this includes the newsreader used
by the responder, whose response may not be attached to the same post he
thinks he's responding to)

And while I'm on the subject, if you separate your post from the sig
line (if any) by two dashes and a space followed by a carriage return,
many (most?) newsreaders will recognize what follows as a sig line and
treat it appropriately (different typeface, indentation, or whatever)
which lets the actual message stand out.

Jose
--
You may not get what you pay for, but you sure as hell pay for what you get.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.