Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:26:08 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with ESMTP id 610025 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:23:12 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.137.5; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.dc.1e02f73d (3310) for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:22:23 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:22:23 EST Subject: Re: [LML] LNC2 Down X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1105975343" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5000 -------------------------------1105975343 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/17/2005 8:31:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, cberland@systems3.net writes: Re: Arizona crash. Friday night I talked to a guy that lives at Stellar Airpark (the Lancair was out of Stellar) and he was told that the Lancair crashed with the engine not running, no fuel in one tank and 5 gallons in the other. He saw the aircraft leave Stellar....said the engine sumbled about 6 ft off the runway and then cleaned up. Craig, You mean this one? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< East Valley news briefs Jan. 7, 2005 12:00 AM Small plane crash kills Valley pilot, passenger GILA RIVER RESERVATION - A 44-year-old pilot who lived in the Stellar Airpark area of Chandler and his passenger, a 35-year-old Queen Creek man, died when the small single-engine plane in which they were flying crashed southeast of Sacaton.The fixed-wing, experimental plane that John Edward Cox was flying took off from Stellar Airpark and crashed about 5 p.m. Wednesday, killing Cox and Westley Fredrick Riedl. Witnesses said the plane was flying at an altitude of several hundred feet when it began to spiral or spin before crashing to the ground, Gila River Police Chief Ken Witkowski said. The plane, a Lancair 235 that Cox owned, crashed about 500 to 600 feet from homes in the area of Arizona 87 and Hashan Kehk Road, Witkowski said. A Federal Aviation Administration investigator and the National Transportation Safety Board will begin examining the crash within the next several days. Witkowski said there was no fire or explosion at the scene, and there was a large amount of fuel in the plane after the crash. The last fatal plane crash on the Gila River Reservation was in 1998, Witkowski said. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Did the plane have a header tank? The news article claims there was a "large amount of fuel in the plane after the crash" (Maybe Dan Rather reported the information). The NTSB database does not have an entry for this crash yet. Was this a 1990 Lancair 235, N64BV? Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96 Aurora, IL (KARR) Fair and Balanced Opinions at No Charge! There is an oxymoron in that, somewhere... -------------------------------1105975343 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 1/17/2005 8:31:16 A.M. Central Standard Time,=20 cberland@systems3.net writes:
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Re: Arizona crash. Friday night I talked=20= to a guy=20 that lives at Stellar Airpark (the Lancair was out of Stellar) and he= was=20 told that the Lancair crashed with the engine not running, no fuel in one=20= tank=20 and 5 gallons in the other. He saw the aircraft leave Stellar....said the=20 engine sumbled about 6 ft off the runway and then cleaned=20 up.
Craig,
 
You mean this one?
 
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East Valley news briefs  Jan. 7, 2005 1= 2:00=20 AM

Small pla= ne=20 crash kills Valley pilot, passenger

GILA RIVE= R=20 RESERVATION - A 44-year-old pilot who lived in the Stellar Airpark area of=20 Chandler and his passenger, a 35-year-old Queen Creek man, died when the sma= ll=20 single-engine plane in which they were flying crashed southeast of Sacaton.T= he=20 fixed-wing, experimental plane that John Edward Cox was flying took off from= =20 Stellar Airpark and crashed about 5 p.m. Wednesday, killing Cox and Westley=20 Fredrick Riedl.

Witnesses said the plane was flying at an altitude o= f=20 several hundred feet when it began to spiral or spin before crashing to the=20 ground, Gila River Police Chief Ken Witkowski said.

The plane, a Lanc= air=20 235 that Cox owned, crashed about 500 to 600 feet from homes in the area of=20 Arizona 87 and Hashan Kehk Road, Witkowski said.

A Federal Aviation=20 Administration investigator and the National Transportation Safety Board wil= l=20 begin examining the crash within the next several days.

Witkowski sai= d=20 there was no fire or explosion at the scene, and there was a large amount of= =20 fuel in the plane after the crash.

The last fatal plane crash on the=20= Gila=20 River Reservation was in 1998, Witkowski said.
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Did the plane have a header tank?  The news article claims the= re was=20 a "large amount of fuel in the plane after the crash" (Maybe Dan=20 Rather reported the information).
 
The NTSB database does not have an entry for this crash yet. =20= Was=20 this a 1990 Lancair 235, N64BV?

 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)

Fai= r=20 and Balanced Opinions at No Charge!
There is an oxymoron in that,=20 somewhere...

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