Posted on 08/28/2006 5:58:16 PM PDT by wjersey
A small plane carrying seven people crashed on Monday in rugged southeastern Kentucky, about 100 miles from Sunday's airliner crash in Lexington, aviation authorities said.
It was unclear if there were any survivors from the crash of the twin-engine Cessna 401, which took off from Kickapoo Airport in Wichita Falls, Texas, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
The spokesman did not know the plane's destination because the pilot did not file a flight plan.
Witnesses near Jackson, Kentucky, told authorities they had heard a plane and then heard and felt an explosion, said Buddy Rogers of the state emergency management agency.
"It's a very remote area with very steep terrain," Rogers said.
The crash follows Sunday's accident in which Comair Flight 5191 went off a short runway at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport and exploded in flames, killing 49 of the 50 aboard.
Thunderstorms and fog.
Prayers for the victims.
Yikes. Kentucky again?
This one?
http://aero-news.net/
Bama
Actually terrorism may affect smaller planes as more people use them, instead of airliners. Just a law of average thing.
That one and he was a doctor. There's a FR thread around here somewhere.
Interesting point...we have had two unsolicited resumes for pilots in the last month...both with middle eastern names. We sent both to the FBI FWIW. Probably nothing to it but it was just strange.
Bama
Get a grip.
A small plane crashed today killing the pilot who had escaped the tsunami. Sorry I don't remember more details.
If they didn't stop enroute for fuel, the fuel load would be reduced by the approx 2 1/2 hr flight.
Possibly pilot error, but I recall back in 1988 a couple of instances at our local FBO where C-401 exhaust system failures nearly causes fatalities. One was caught by a dedicated very thorough A/P. The other was caught in the act of burning through the firewall, shut down, and landed promptly. The 'Y' pipe below the turbo is hard to inspect without removing some hardware. Sometimes lazy mechanics don't do their job.
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