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Rain, wind and fog stymie NTSB’s investigation of plane crash in Alaska
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said it’s a tragically sad day for the state after learning that Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash. She said Alaska has lost one of the greatest leaders that the state will ever see.
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Roush On The Mend, Airplane Isn’t
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NASCAR legend Jack Roush remains in the Mayo Clinic recovering from facial injuries suffered in the hard landing of his Beech Premier at AirVenture July 27 and reports suggest he’s mending well. However, there appears to be little hope for his airplane, which AVweb reader Josh Berman recognized immediately when he pulled into a hotel parking lot in Merrillville, Ind., last Thursday. Berman said the trucks pulling the two trailers of wreckage bore the name of Atlanta Air Recovery, of Griffin, Ga., which is the boneyard for wrecks the authorities are investigating. Meanwhile Roush’s spirits are reportedly good as he keeps track of his racing empire from the famous Rochester, Minn., clinic.
According to a car racing blog, Carl Edwards, one of the Roush Fenway team drivers, visited Roush in the hospital. “Jack is really good,” Edwards said. “He is a lot better than I expected. He is Jack. We talked a lot about the race this weekend and what we were doing with our teams. He seems really good to me.”
Single engine plane crashes into Maryland’s South River
March 29, 2010 NewYorkInjuryNews.com – Aviation Accidents, Injury News, Product Liability
Recently restored plane crash lands in South RiverLegal news for Maryland aviation accident attorneys – Pilot rescued, stable but scared, after crashing into South River near Edgewater airport.76-year-old pilot rescued by onlookers after crash landing plane into MD river.Edgewater, MD www.NewYorkInjuryNews.com – Richard Drawyer, 76, of Annapolis, was rescued by a marina resident after his single engine plane crashed into South River on Thursday, March 25, 2010, as reported by Capital Gazette Communications, Inc. According to reports, the pilot was unscathed, but in a bit of shock after the incident.Witnesses indicate the Cessna 120, a single engine, two-seat light general aviation plane, began flying low over the water at approximately 3:20 p.m. It then made a crash landing into the river just west of the South River Bridge. Liberty Marina tenant JoDee Carvalho and a marina employee sped to the rescue in an inflatable boat. Carvalho reported they found Drewyer “on top of the tip of the plane,” which had already turned over. Carvalho told reporters, “He was in shock, he wasn’t moving much…seemed to be scared out of his wits.”
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GA Man Killed When Struck By Plane on Hilton Head
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HILTON HEAD, S.C. (AP) – A 38-year-old jogger from Georgia is dead after a single-engine plane making an emergency landing hit him as he ran on a South Carolina beach listening to his iPod.
The coroner said Tuesday that Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., apparently did not hear the troubled plane that struck him from behind on Hilton Head Island on Monday. The plane had lost its propeller and the pilot’s vision was blocked by oil on the windshield.
Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen says he plans to conduct an autopsy. He says Jones was married and had two children.
Hilton Head fire and rescue spokeswoman Joheida Fister says the identities of the pilot and a passenger on the Experimental Lancair IV-P plane were not released. They were not injured.
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