Posted on 04/29/2014 7:57:46 AM PDT by george76
A small airplane heading back to South Dakota after a Texas cattle sale crashed into a wind farm in foggy weather, killing the pilot and three passengers.
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Similar conditions contributed to a 2008 crash in southeast Minnesota. Federal investigators concluded the pilot of a 1948 Cessna 140 lacked proper instrument training for the day's foul weather. The National Transportation Safety Board's probable cause report also noted the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane while maneuvering around a wind farm.
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“Cherokee 140”
Cherokee 140 is also a two place plane. Without reading more than the clip of the article, I wasn’t sure if that reference was to the current crash or the earlier one...
Upon reading the article, the current aircraft was a Piper PA-32, a Cherokee Six - six seats.
From the article:
Elizabeth Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the Piper 32 was traveling from Hereford, Texas, to Gettysburg, South Dakota.
The Cessna 140 reference was to a similar accident, not this one.
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