Plane Crashes at Hanscom Air Force Base (Mass.)

WHDH ^ | Saturday, May 31, 2014

[diogenes ghost]

"....Memphis. Fedex......You know what I mean."

No, I really don't. Fedex operates No A360's, NO A320's, NO 727's. If you were an aircraft spotter during the war we'd have lost a lot of planes to friendly fire.

[SkyPilot]

Newspaper millionaire and 6 other big shots. he was co owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[OldMissileer]

that’s what AF1 should be, not some multi billion with a B boondoggle.

AF1 is designed to withstand a nuclear environment and is to be used for reconstitution. It has many different forms of communications equipment and can communicate to the forces even during the trans attack phase. The communication equipment is also used in day to day operations to ensure the president can direct the Government during peacetime events.

A Gulfstream IV does not have the ability to carry that equipment nor does it have the performance to keep aloft for the extremely long periods of time required if things go south and we have a nuclear exchange.

[Vaquero]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/01/us/massachusetts-plane-crash/index.html?eref=edition

Philly newspaper owner among dead in private plane crash

[Flash Bazbeaux]

The Laboratory operates the main hangar on the Hanscom Air Force Base flight line. This very large building (~93,000 sq ft) accommodates the Laboratory’s airborne test bed and a complex of state-of-the-art antenna test chambers. The facility houses several Lincoln Laboratory-operated aircraft, including a Boeing 707, which is used for rapid prototyping of airborne sensors and communications.

http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/facilities.html

[cynwoody]

The other morning I was googling for material to post on another aviation thread, when I came upon the story of a rather unpleasant flight from Buenos Aires to New York. A minor factoid was that among the inconvenienced pax in first class was the President of Portugal, who was on his way to NYC for a 50th anniversary celebration of the UN.

[cynwoody]

Company officials are listed as Lewis Katz and Emil Solimine.

Lewis Katz, co-owner of The Inquirer, dies in plane crash

[Sarah Barracuda]

Greta Van Susteren ‏@gretawire 1m Ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell invited on jet that crashed but said no - per @BostonGlobe #katz

[raccoonradio]

Ed Rendell turned down flight due to other
committments. It’s Katz, etc were at a gathering
at Doris Kearns Goodwin’s home before
flight (she’s prob still in Concord MA which
is nearby)

[raccoonradio]

(It’s said, that should say)

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[raccoonradio]

Bos Globe:>>National Transportation Safety Bureau investigator Luke Schiada said the doomed jet never got airborne at the end of the runway. The plane clipped an antenna, plowed through a chain link fence and burst into flames as it skidded to a halt in the Shawsheen River gully about 2,000 feet from the end of the runway.
“We’re at the very beginning of the investigation,” Schiada said. “We’re not going to speculate. We’re not going to draw any conclusions. The victims are currently being removed from the aircraft. We ‘re also looking for the aircraft’s flight recorders. The aircraft itself is located about 2,000 feet from the end of the paved surface of Runway 11. There was a significant post-crash fire. It went down an embankment into a gully with water and that’s where it came to rest, so it’s making the initial examination and recovery process difficult.”