Pilot and wife killed. Same pilot involved in crash in 2003 which killed his first wife and 2 children.
Tail # N88MN
Flight path:
flightaware.com/live/flight/N88MN
indianasnewscenter.com/news/ … 35939.html
The story is heart-wrenching and rife with irony. RIP to the doc and his wife and good luck to the son. I wasn’t even aware that he was owner of the local air service (from which I’d taken my solitary flight lesson) until I read the story on the front page of the local paper this morning. Sad.
Quite a story. It made ESPN.com and USAToday.com. Really terrible for the 16 year old with no close family now.
How can one look up his first crash? I know he disputed the findings that he ran out of gas. I found a couple of places on private crashes but no luck when I searched from his name.
Previous crash report http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20030905X01478&key=1
Current crash http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N88MN/history/20110624/2130Z/KSMD/KCVX
Preliminary Report:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20110624X20211&key=1
AHHH The Cat 3 GPS circle to land at 200 agl. that’s a difficult maneuver