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I got the story below a few days ago. I sent it in but somehow it was never
posted so I thought I'd resend it for those that may be interested. A sad
and unfortunate story indeed.

Ted Stanley


Pilot killed in plane crash

By DAILY SUN STAFF
06/18/2001

The pilot of small, private airplane was killed Saturday afternoon when his
plane crashed in a wooded area 21Ú2 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 2-1/2 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.


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