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Crossfield's plane wreckage found
per MSNBC
Wreckage found. Roger, GA Body inside wreckage, unidentified at this time. Jim |
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Jim Burns wrote:
per MSNBC Wreckage found. Roger, GA Body inside wreckage, unidentified at this time. The aircraft, as seen during better days, on Airliners.net: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0048724/L/ -- Peter |
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Test Pilot's Body Said Found in Wreckage
By DANIEL YEE Associated Press Writer April 20, 2006, 2:14 PM EDT RANGER, Ga. -- Legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of a single-engine plane in the mountains of northern Georgia, his son-in-law said. Searchers discovered the wreckage of a small plane about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta, but the Civil Air Patrol didn't immediately identify the body inside. Ed Fleming, Crossfield's son-in-law, told The Associated Press from Crossfield's home in Herndon, Va., that family had been told it was Crossfield. Crossfield's Cessna was last spotted in the same area on Wednesday while on flight from Alabama to Virginia. There were thunderstorms in the area when officials lost radar and radio contact with the plane at 11:15 a.m., said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. Crossfield, 84, had been one of a group of civilian pilots assembled by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the forerunner of NASA, in the early 1950s. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager had already broken the speed of sound in his history-making flight in 1947. But Crossfield set the Mach 2 record -- twice the speed of sound -- in 1953, when he reached 1,300 mph in NACA's Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket. In 1960, Crossfield reached Mach 2.97 in an X-15 rocket plane launched from a B-52 bomber. The plane reached an altitude of 81,000 feet. At the time, Crossfield was working as a pilot and design consultant for North American Aviation, which made the X-15. He later worked as an executive for Eastern Airlines and Hawker Siddley Aviation. More recently, Crossfield had a key role in preparations for the attempt to re-enact the Wright brothers' flight on the 100th anniversary of their feat near Kitty Hawk, N.C. He trained four pilots for the Dec. 17, 2003, flight attempt in a replica of the brothers' flyer, but poor weather prevented the take-off. Among his many honors, Crossfield was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1983. On Wednesday, his plane had left Prattville, Ala., around 9 a.m. en route to Manassas, Va., not far from his home. Blue skies, Scott. |
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Crossfield's plane wreckage found
Here's the flight path:
http://map3.flightaware.com/flight_t...ime=1145470080 (I know it's awfully long but makeashorterlink didn't work) I'm not sure if the weather shown is actual but it looks he flew right into a cell. Damn! Gerd |
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The crash occurred about 25 miles from my office, and happened around
lunchtime. I was outside just before the line of huge storms moved through, and can tell you that it was no place for a GA aircraft to be flying. There was a 50 mile x 25 mile area of solid red on the weather channel's radar, and golfball sized hail was reported. I'd guess that weather was a big factor in the crash. I'm surprised that someone of Crossfield's experience and talent would have been anywhere near a mess that. A very sad day for the aviation community and for Mr. Crossfield's family and friends. A true avaition great is gone. KB "gwengler" wrote in message oups.com... Here's the flight path: http://map3.flightaware.com/flight_t...ime=1145470080 (I know it's awfully long but makeashorterlink didn't work) I'm not sure if the weather shown is actual but it looks he flew right into a cell. Damn! Gerd |
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"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message news The crash occurred about 25 miles from my office, and happened around lunchtime. I was outside just before the line of huge storms moved through, and can tell you that it was no place for a GA aircraft to be flying. There was a 50 mile x 25 mile area of solid red on the weather channel's radar, and golfball sized hail was reported. I'd guess that weather was a big factor in the crash. I'm surprised that someone of Crossfield's experience and talent would have been anywhere near a mess that. Based on the almost straight flight path from takeoff to impact, and it's reference to the weather line just to the left of the flight path, I'll be interested in seeing the results of the post mortem examination on his body. Dudley Henriques |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
ink.net... Based on the almost straight flight path from takeoff to impact, and it's reference to the weather line just to the left of the flight path, I'll be interested in seeing the results of the post mortem examination on his body. He died of cardiac arrest... One way or another... -- "I don't wish to be argumentative, but I disagree with the Islamic belief that I should be killed." |
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"Grumman-581" wrote in message ... "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... Based on the almost straight flight path from takeoff to impact, and it's reference to the weather line just to the left of the flight path, I'll be interested in seeing the results of the post mortem examination on his body. He died of cardiac arrest... One way or another... I'm not a physician, but I believe it can be determined if death or any incapacitation was pre impact. Either way, I'll be interested in seeing the report. Dudley Henriques |
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gwengler wrote:
I'm not sure if the weather shown is actual but it looks he flew right into a cell. Damn! FlightAware's radar overlay is a current picture, not a snapshot of the radar picture during the flight. IMO, this radar picture only works when one is tracking a flight realtime. For flights that have completed, they need to either remove the image all together or do what LiveATC.net does with their archives and store/display the radar image at the time of the flight. This has been a minor nuisance to me since they added this, so when I have a moment I am going to post the above recommendation in their forum. FlightAware's web authors seem to be very responsive to comments about their site. -- Peter |
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