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Offline Habu

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Two small planes collide in California
« on: January 20, 2008, 08:32:08 PM »
Hope it is not anyone we know.



 4 dead as planes collide in Calif. 18 minutes ago
 


CORONA, Calif. - Two private planes flying about a mile from an airport collided Sunday, killing at least four people and raining debris down on car dealerships below, authorities said.


 
The small Cessnas collided at 3:35 p.m. near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.

Three of the dead were from the planes and the fourth was in a car hit by debris on the ground, Kenitzer said.

Debris fell on car dealerships, and television pictures showed that the smashed fuselage of one of the planes landed atop a parked car.

"The smaller aircraft ... just disintegrated into pieces, maybe fifty pieces coming down," eyewitness Jeff Hardin told KABC-TV. "The other aircraft pretty much stayed intact and started spiraling down."

"We're going through the dealerships to make sure everyone's accounted for and nobody's injured," Corona Police Sgt. Jerry Pawluczenko said.
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Offline Russian

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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 08:43:48 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_us/planes_collide;_ylt=AqaJGRErl7O6jZQ2GRvkRtJvzwcF

Proper link.


It's near by here, but I didn't hear anything...


Guy on the ground must be very unlucky......
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 08:53:17 PM »
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Offline JB88

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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 08:56:21 PM »
sad news.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 09:18:01 PM »
Sad times indeed. :(
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 10:01:30 PM »
Okay i can understand how two planes collide, but the poor sob sitting in a parked car, being crushed to death.....:(


When death comes, its anyway out i guess.
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 11:27:35 PM »
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Okay i can understand how two planes collide, but the poor sob sitting in a parked car, being crushed to death.....:(


When death comes, its anyway out i guess.
You wouldnt even know it as you sit sipping your latte and listening to top 40, that up in the sky some moron just set in motion the events that would kill you. Just Sip,Bam, Blackness. That would suck.
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2008, 11:30:04 PM »
Happened on the turn from crosswind to downwind.  I wonder if navy turns would have helped.  I've started doing one continuous gentle turn from upwind to downwind (as well as downwind to final) to keep good visibility and minimize bank angle at low speed.  Cut one of the coffin corners out of the equation.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2008, 10:01:14 AM »
Bodies fall out of sky:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_us/planes_collide

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CORONA, Calif. - Investigators picked through the gnarled wreckage Monday of two small planes that collided about a mile from an airport, killing five and raining debris and bodies down on car dealership parking lots.

The two small Cessnas crashed at 3:35 p.m. Sunday near the small Corona Municipal Airport, just north of the Riverside Freeway, authorities said.

Two people were killed from each plane, and a fifth was killed inside a Chevy dealership hit by wreckage, said Wayne Pollack of the National Transportation Safety Board.

"There were bodies falling out of the sky," eyewitness Hector Hernandez told KCBS-TV. "One of them crashed into the top of a Ford Mustang, and another one fell not too far behind that one on the parking lot."....
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2008, 10:21:45 AM »
One could only hope they were killed in the air to air collision and not when hitting the ground.
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2008, 11:59:20 AM »
Thats what happens when two planes HO each other and neither has guns

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I guess they forgot to hit 'O' after bailing.
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2008, 03:13:21 PM »
Try harder next time Aquaboy...
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2008, 03:38:34 PM »
Tasteless as usual shrimp. :huh
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2008, 05:40:04 PM »
Nice post shrimp:aok

Richard Cranium at it again.
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2008, 07:32:44 PM »
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Just Sip,Bam, Blackness. That would suck.


It would actually be a blessing.

Beats the doo-dah out of dying slowly to some disease, gradually watching your capabilites become incapacitation.

Cheerful thought, eh?
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