Mid-air in San Diego

wrote:
someone caught portion of it on video. There's a still of it on the
local UT news website:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...7-midair3.html

Any pictures of the bodies? No disaster like this is complete without that.

Matt "who is getting really tired of reading about accidents here"

Grumman-581 wrote:
"Flyingmonk" wrote in message
ups.com...

One of the aircraft was apparently an experimental Cessna plane,

according

to George Wood of the Heartland Fire Department.

Didn't know Cessna is still experimenting with airplanes.


Knowing how accurate the media is, that probably just means an experimental
high wing aircraft... Technically, if someone was developing an STC for a
certified plane and doing test flights, wouldn't it be classified as an
'experimental' at that point?

You think the press is smart enough to know that?

Here here, Matt.
I'm with you "getting tired".

Matt Whiting wrote in
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Matt "who is getting really tired of reading about accidents here"

"Rachel" wrote in message
...
You think the press is smart enough to know that?

Nawh, I believe that one should not underestimate the stupidity of the
press...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...7m10crash.html :

"The Cessna 172RG with the student and instructor left Gillespie Field
in El Cajon first, and the second plane took off about a minute later
from the same airport. The crash occurred about three miles away at an
altitude of 2,300 feet.

Dunks said the student pilot was flying under instrument flight rules,
learning how to control the plane in inclement weather."

"Kupiec, the pilot of the other plane [a Cessna 182], had started
flying from Montgomery Field and stopped off at Gillespie Field before
resuming his flight."

"The plane with the pilot and instructor had filed a flight plan
indicating they were heading south toward Brown Field. The other plane
had contacted the tower on takeoff, but the pilot's destination was
unknown."

"The Cessna 172RG was owned by Scandinavian Aviation Academy, a flight
school based at Gillespie Field. Officials at the school refused to
talk to reporters."

wrote:
Just witnessed a mid-air collision 5 miles south of KSEE :-(
I did not notice any aircraft in the sky until there was a medium sized
fireball low on the horizon. Two smoking pieces then split off and fell
down, reigniting into two smaller fireballs. About 3 minutes later the
smoke had vanished.
On TV the accident location was given as Griffen Park, El Cajon which
would put it WSW of KSEE or ESE of KMYF. It's close to the extended
localizer of KMYFs 28R and slightly north of San Diego's Bravo airspace.

Generally, not a good month for the GA community. More Kamikazi hits
than
His Emperor's Navy.

JG

In article . com,
wrote:

wrote:
Just witnessed a mid-air collision 5 miles south of KSEE :-(
I did not notice any aircraft in the sky until there was a medium sized
fireball low on the horizon. Two smoking pieces then split off and fell
down, reigniting into two smaller fireballs. About 3 minutes later the
smoke had vanished.
On TV the accident location was given as Griffen Park, El Cajon which
would put it WSW of KSEE or ESE of KMYF. It's close to the extended
localizer of KMYFs 28R and slightly north of San Diego's Bravo airspace.

Generally, not a good month for the GA community. More Kamikazi hits
than
His Emperor's Navy.

JG

Go take a long walk off a short (Navy) Pier, you stupid ghoul!

In article .com,
wrote:

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article . com,
wrote:

Generally, not a good month for the GA community. More Kamikazi hits
than
His Emperor's Navy.

JG

Go take a long walk off a short (Navy) Pier, you stupid ghoul!

Neighboring home-owners can play their cards right a get a free
Allstate Remodeling
out of all these incidents. You guys do carry insurance..right?

Just stay in the cellar until the air-strip closes nightly and don't
invest too much in the
furniture. Eventually... viola a new house.


That is a bad gamble, as GA accidents into homes are rare -- as
exemplified by the national coverage that a local accident gets. BTW,
"jgrove", while we are on the subject, could I interest you in my share
of the Brooklyn Bridge?