X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:54:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m16.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.206] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c1) with ESMTP id 662698 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:30:14 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.138.206; envelope-from=MikeEasley@aol.com Received: from MikeEasley@aol.com by imo-m16.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r4.1.) id q.bd.5d730373 (16633) for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:29:27 -0400 (EDT) From: MikeEasley@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:29:26 EDT Subject: More on N750F crash X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1123723766" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5200 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1123723766 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit from the Calgary Herald, August 10th edition, front page and continuing on B3: Two Dead in Crash of Homebuilt Plane A small homemade plane on a flight from Calgary to Grand Prairie crashed late Tuesday about 60 kilometres northwest of Calgary, killing both occupants. Two people are dead after a small plane spiralled out of a cloudy sky into a field west of Didsbury Tuesday evening. The U.S. home-built plane was flying from Calgary to Grande Prairie when it disappeared from radar at the Edmonton Air Control Centre, said Yvon Larose, an air controller with the search and rescue centre in Trenton, Ont. "It was starting to circle and its speed was bleeding off," said Larose. "It could have been mechanical, it could have been medical, we don't know" The search and rescue centre dispatched a Hercules from Winnipeg and a Griffin from Cold Lake at 7:30 p.m., but the planes never left the tarmac. Both were stood down when the word came in that a STARS air ambulance from Calgary had reached the site and found both pilot and passenger dead. Didsbury Fire, EMS and RCMP arrived on scene shortly after 9:30 p.m. "It was really a joint effort to find this site," said Lance Stephenson, public information officer for STARS. "It all came together fairly quickly. Unfortunately, the outcome wasn't so good." -------------------------------1123723766 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
from the Calgary Herald, August 10th edition, front page and continuing= on=20 B3:
 
 
Two Dead in Crash of Homebuilt Plane
 
A small homemade plane on a flight from Calgary to Grand Prairie crashe= d=20 late Tuesday about 60 kilometres northwest of Calgary, killing both=20 occupants.  Two people are dead after a small plane spiralled out of a=20 cloudy sky into a field west of Didsbury Tuesday evening.
 
The U.S. home-built plane was flying from Calgary to Grande Prairie whe= n it=20 disappeared from radar at the Edmonton Air Control Centre, said Yvon Larose,= an=20 air controller with the search and rescue centre in Trenton, Ont.
 
"It was starting to circle and its speed was bleeding off," said=20 Larose.  "It could have been mechanical, it could have been medical, we= =20 don't know"
 
The search and rescue centre dispatched a Hercules from Winnipeg and a=20 Griffin from Cold Lake at 7:30 p.m., but the planes never left the tarmac.
 
Both were stood down when the word came in that a STARS air ambulance f= rom=20 Calgary had reached the site and found both pilot and passenger dead.
 
Didsbury Fire, EMS and RCMP arrived on scene shortly after 9:30 p.m.
 
"It was really a joint effort to find this site," said Lance Stephenson= ,=20 public information officer for STARS.  "It all came together fairly=20 quickly.  Unfortunately, the outcome wasn't so=20 good."
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