Posted on 03/22/2009 3:44:57 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
No info yet, breaking headline on CNN TV..
FAA saying 17 dead according to FOX
Prayers going out.
Weather very unsettled around here now - snow rain, wind squalls.
If I remember correctly, the airport is atop a butte.
http://www.ktvm.com/montana_news.php?id=0bf5a4b028209b7407b10e406880a01c
17 DEAD IN BUTTE PLANE CRASH
Author: Staff Reports and Associated Press
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson says 17 people were killed in a plane crash in Butte.
The NewsChannel’s Keith Bertog is on the story and will have updates.
nothing on cnn or fox now. when they get more details i guess.
Oh dear, praying.
Wondering what type of plane, 17 dead.
KTVQ.com
http://www.ktvq.com
http://www.ktvq.com/global/story.asp?s=10050868
“Plane crashes in Butte”
Posted: March 22, 2009 03:30 PM
Updated: March 22, 2009 03:31 PM
Reporting from KXLF in Butte
SNIPPET: “Emergency crews are at the scene of the plane crash Butte that happened at about 3:00 p.m. on afternoon.
The twin-engine plane went down in the Holy Cross Cemetery near Bert Mooney Airport and officials tell us that there are fatalities...”
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2.../03/22/breaking/hjjajghhidgdia.txt
This is quite a string of coincidences. I heard 2 navy ships collided in the strait of hormuz during the week, now plane crashes, hubby mentioned a sub collision a while back. Starting to add up to alot of incidences. Hubby was starting to wonder if there was test runs of radar jamming or other interference. He is ex army, and said he felt it would be highly unlikely about the navy ship collisions......
BUTTE, Mont. - A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says 17 people are dead after a plane crashed while approaching the airport in Butte.
Spokesman Mike Fergus says the single engine turboprop plane departed from Orville, Calif., at about 11 a.m. Pacific time. The pilot had filed a flight plan showing a final destination of Bozeman.
Fergus says the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte. The plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport while attempting to land and caught fire.
(snip)
Fergus says the plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Oregon, but he doesn’t know who was operating the plane.
(snip)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29828359/
Prayers and RIP for the victims.
If "a while back" is a couple of days, I think these are the same incident.
He may be thinking of an incident a few days earlier in which a Navy cruiser ran aground in Hawaii.
The ships in Hormuz, this week. The subs colliding, over a month ago. The ship running arground in Hawaaii, I had not heard of that.....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29828359/
He says preliminary reports indicate the dead include numerous children.
The Montana Standard reported on its Web site that the plane crashed in the Holy Cross Cemetery, just south of the airport. An eyewitness told the Standard that the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.
Thank you Maggie F for the additional info.
The small, single-engine plane may have been carrying several young children who may have been en route for a ski vacation, The Montana Standard reported.
It is unclear if anyone on the ground was injured.
An eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.
I don’t recall a sub collision a month ago.
With all the other cr@p going on, I could easily have forgotten or missed it entirely.
The collision in the Straits of Hormuz involved a sub.
Now that I’m thinking it over, perhaps it’s Billings MT airport that is on the mesa. I seem to recall driving down the butte to a college town.
Flightaware has a flight from OVE-BTM...a Pilatus PC-12
N128CM (registration) (photos)
EAGLE CAP LEASING INC
ENTERPRISE OR
It may be Billings - Butte’s airport is weird though - it’s down on “the flats” .. but the approach is spooky ... I’d fly in there for business quite a bit in 2002 - 2003 ... Quite often in the winter if the weather was bad they’d divert to Bozemen or Helena and bus folks in ...
I think a sub and a ship are two different things.
How awful. The poor parents of those children. God almighty be with them. Truly tragic.
I wonder when one of these plane wrecks will be one with political connections Like JFK jr. or Ron Brown It could be any day now
Without him able to give me a source, I don’t doubt it was the same incident. He doesn’t follow the news and come on here, thats my job to keep him informed. He mentioned it in passing. Your account is probably more accurate :)
BTTT!
Generally, they are.
One of each collided with each other in the Straits of Hormuz a few days ago.
Sort of like “taking two to tango”.
The Billings airport is on a mesa which overlooks most of Billings. I don’t now about Butte.
Does anyone know if these kids were actually from Oroville? This is very important for me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Navy FReepers.
Fergus says the plane departed from Orville, Calif. and that the pilot had filed a flight plan showing a final destination of Bozeman. The pilot had canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte.
EAGLE CAP LEASING INC , PILATUS PC-12/45
PILATUS | PC-12/45 | ENTERPRISE | fixed wing single engine | EAGLE CAP LEASING INC
Serial number: 403
N-number: 128CM
Cerificate issued: Friday, September 13, 2002
Manufactured year: 2001
How would that plane hold 17 passangers?!
Oh my.
64-year-old Imeson took off alone from the Bozeman airport. Two friends say he had intended to document the site of a 2007 crash in the Elkhorn Mountains that left him with a compression fracture to his back, broken ribs, a broken toe and cuts on his head.
Killed revisiting the site of his own previous near-fatal crash. Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.
Aircraft Pilatus PC-12 (single-turboprop) (PC12/G)
Origin Oroville Muni (KOVE - track or info)
Destination Bert Mooney (KBTM - track or info)
Other flights between these airports
Route FMG J7 LKT (Decode)
Date Sunday, Mar 22, 2009
Duration 2 hours 26 minutes
Status Arrived over 2 hours ago (track log)
Scheduled Actual/Estimated
Departure 11:40AM PDT 11:10AM PDT
Arrival 03:09PM MDT 02:36PM MDT
Speed 260 kts
Altitude 25000 feet
“We think that it was probably a ski trip for the kids,” Fergus said.
Fergus said the plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing in Enterprise, Ore., but he didn’t know who was operating the plane.
Yes, I saw that while researching.
Very sad.
subs are ALWAYS called “boats”..not just sometimes..
Julie Banderas on FOX had a former NTSB employee on discussing the crash .
He said if this was a single engine plane that 17 passengers are a LOT (as in, too many). Then she comes back and tells him it’s a double- so he says - ok- that makes more sense. THEN she comes back and says- no it WAS a single engine- he says even if there were children aboard 17 more than the plane is configured to carry.
OMG, you should see the Fed Ex plane that crashed. Fox News has the video.
It bounced and then burst into flames. It’s a charred mess.
He is referring to the British and French subs that collided. Radar jamming? You really need to get out and get some fresh air.
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