Indianna Crash

OHIOAN AMONG THE VICTIMS
5 Indiana students killed in plane crash
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Deanna Martin
ASSOCIATED PRESS


BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ‹ An Indiana University student was piloting a small
plane through dense fog when the aircraft crashed, killing the four
passengers and fellow classmates, officials said yesterday.
The five graduate students in the university¹s school of music were
returning from a rehearsal for a community concert in West Lafayette,
about 90 miles north of campus, when the plane disappeared from radar
about 11:40 p.m. Thursday.
Georgina H. Joshi, who had studied at the Royal College of Music in
London and had sung in Wales, piloted the singleengine Cessna.
Investigators said they did not immediately know how much flying
experience Joshi had.
In addition to Joshi, 24, of South Bend, the students who died in the
crash were identified as Zachary J. Novak, 25, of Anderson; Robert
Clayton Samels, 24, of Medina, Ohio; Garth A. Eppley, 25, of Wabash,
Ind.; and Chris Bates Carducci, 27, of Monroe, Mich.
"This is a devastating loss that is deeply felt on the Bloomington
campus," university president Adam Herbert said at a news conference.
Teary-eyed students consoled each other outside the School of Music
administration building.
"To lose one student, let alone five, is such a tragedy. It will have a
big impact on all of us," said Sam Page, a 19-yearold freshman from
Columbus, Ohio, majoring in performance bassoon.
Emergency crews found the badly damaged craft upside down in dense woods
just south of the airport a couple miles west of Bloomington. The main
fuselage appeared to be in one piece, and the landing gear was still
attached, but the wings were damaged.

"john smith" wrote in message
...
OHIOAN AMONG THE VICTIMS
5 Indiana students killed in plane crash

More details and photos he
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...WS02/604220360

This seems to be the flight track: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N120HS

It looks consistent with the BMG ILS 35 approach
(http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0604/05168IL35.PDF),
though the article doesn't say whether the flight was IFR or VFR. According
to the FAA database, the pilot was instrument (and multi-engine) rated.

--Gary

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
...
More details and photos he
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...WS02/604220360

This seems to be the flight track:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N120HS

It looks consistent with the BMG ILS 35 approach
(http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0604/05168IL35.PDF),
though the article doesn't say whether the flight was IFR or VFR.
According to the FAA database, the pilot was instrument (and multi-engine)
rated.

The preliminary NTSB report is out now:
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...25X00483&key=1

There was a (nonfatal) 1986 crash on the same ILS approach:
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...13X35331&key=1

(The NTSB database lists five fatal accidents at BMG, totaling eleven
deaths.)

--Gary