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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> This is a news clipping forwarded to me by Susan Brunners. She found it in the Arizona Sun Newspaper online. **************************** Pilot killed in plane crash By DAILY SUN STAFF 06/18/2001 | Reader Comments The pilot of small, private airplane was killed Saturday afternoon when his plane crashed in a wooded area 21/2 miles northeast of Pulliam Airport. John "Tony" Durizzi, 66, was piloting the single-engine plane and died in the crash, police said. There were no other passengers in the plane. According to Flagstaff Police spokesman Gerry Blair, the pilot of the plane told airport officials that he was trying to land at the airport but that was probably going to crash land somewhere between the Flagstaff Mall and the airport. Airport officials then called Flagstaff police at 4:26 p.m. Using the Department of Public Safety Search and Rescue helicopter and Forest Service air attack aircraft that were assigned to the Leroux Fire, officials located the downed plane about 45 minutes later at 5:09 p.m. The plane was found 21/2 miles northeast of the airport off Lone Tree Road, Blair said. Flagstaff police have secured the crash site and are awaiting the arrival of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration. The crash didn't cause a fire, and police couldn't detect the smell of fuel at the site. "One possibility is that he ran out of gas," Blair said. Blair said Durizzi was flying the plane on a cross-country flight. Durizzi of Bellevue, Wash., had left Ada, Okla., today and was flying to Flagstaff, the next stop in his cross-country flight that was scheduled to end in Los Angeles. ****************************** Regards, John Barrett www.carbinge.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML website: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html LML Builders' Bookstore: http://www.buildersbooks.com/lancair Please send your photos and drawings to marvkaye@olsusa.com. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>