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I am such a nice guy, I am posting the article in order to save a hundred people 5 minutes of enrolling on their website and answering No to a bunch of advertising questions.
The story is about a girl who was in a van hit by a light GA airplane and almost lost her leg from injuries:
Posted on Fri, Jan. 14, 2005
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Airplane crash report is due soon
By Linda Davis
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
The investigation of an airplane accident last April on Interstate 680 drags on, but the recovery of the girl injured in the accident is progressing more quickly.
In the midst of the evening commute on April 13, 2004, a Piper aircraft flown by Colorado pilot Curt Hatch made a forced landing on the freeway in Pleasant Hill, shortly after take-off from Buchanan Field in Concord. The plane had lost power.
In the ensuing accident, the leg of 11-year-old Arianna Jimenez of Danville was nearly severed as the plane spun around, its propeller slicing through the van she was riding in. The pilot and his son escaped from the plane shortly before it burst into flames from a ruptured fuel tank.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been tight-lipped about the investigation and its findings. A final report is expected in late February or early March. The pilot, the mechanic who repaired the plane and others could be subject to punitive action, depending on what the final report says.
A few months ago, the plane's engine was sent to Mobile, Ala., for teardown and inspection.
"Numerous maintenance irregularities were discovered," said NTSB air safety investigator Patrick Jones. "During the normal course of investigation, numerous facts have been discovered and leads followed up. Enforcement action, if any, would be determined by the FAA."
The investigation is a multi-jurisdictional one. It involves FAA reports from Oakland headquarters, which oversees this region, and also from Salt Lake City, because the pilot and the aircraft rental company in Colorado are under that office's jurisdiction.
Mike Fergus, a spokesman for the FAA's northwest region, said the mechanic who was flown out from Colorado to work on Hatch's plane in Concord "was re-examined and passed muster." He said the Salt Lake City FAA checked numerous log entries involving the mechanic and the flight logs "appeared in order."
"There was concern raised about the individual's performance. Would it cause a trend hooked to safety?" Fergus said. "The check of the logs came up OK."
The Jimenez family faces $700,000 in hospital bills to save Arianna's left leg, which was missing a large piece of bone. The leg would have been amputated, but the nerve was intact and surgeons operated to save it. That leg is about two inches shorter than the other, and there are several surgical options, said Arianna's mother, Janeen Jimenez.
Doctors are trying to graduate Arianna from crutches to a cane, and she has begun to bear weight on the healing leg. Her therapy has intensified, her mother said. The family went ice skating on Christmas Eve; Arianna did fine, but her mother broke her ankle.
The family has hired an attorney to pursue legal options related to the accident.
The story is about a girl who was in a van hit by a light GA airplane and almost lost her leg from injuries:
Posted on Fri, Jan. 14, 2005
Click here to find out more!
Airplane crash report is due soon
By Linda Davis
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
The investigation of an airplane accident last April on Interstate 680 drags on, but the recovery of the girl injured in the accident is progressing more quickly.
In the midst of the evening commute on April 13, 2004, a Piper aircraft flown by Colorado pilot Curt Hatch made a forced landing on the freeway in Pleasant Hill, shortly after take-off from Buchanan Field in Concord. The plane had lost power.
In the ensuing accident, the leg of 11-year-old Arianna Jimenez of Danville was nearly severed as the plane spun around, its propeller slicing through the van she was riding in. The pilot and his son escaped from the plane shortly before it burst into flames from a ruptured fuel tank.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been tight-lipped about the investigation and its findings. A final report is expected in late February or early March. The pilot, the mechanic who repaired the plane and others could be subject to punitive action, depending on what the final report says.
A few months ago, the plane's engine was sent to Mobile, Ala., for teardown and inspection.
"Numerous maintenance irregularities were discovered," said NTSB air safety investigator Patrick Jones. "During the normal course of investigation, numerous facts have been discovered and leads followed up. Enforcement action, if any, would be determined by the FAA."
The investigation is a multi-jurisdictional one. It involves FAA reports from Oakland headquarters, which oversees this region, and also from Salt Lake City, because the pilot and the aircraft rental company in Colorado are under that office's jurisdiction.
Mike Fergus, a spokesman for the FAA's northwest region, said the mechanic who was flown out from Colorado to work on Hatch's plane in Concord "was re-examined and passed muster." He said the Salt Lake City FAA checked numerous log entries involving the mechanic and the flight logs "appeared in order."
"There was concern raised about the individual's performance. Would it cause a trend hooked to safety?" Fergus said. "The check of the logs came up OK."
The Jimenez family faces $700,000 in hospital bills to save Arianna's left leg, which was missing a large piece of bone. The leg would have been amputated, but the nerve was intact and surgeons operated to save it. That leg is about two inches shorter than the other, and there are several surgical options, said Arianna's mother, Janeen Jimenez.
Doctors are trying to graduate Arianna from crutches to a cane, and she has begun to bear weight on the healing leg. Her therapy has intensified, her mother said. The family went ice skating on Christmas Eve; Arianna did fine, but her mother broke her ankle.
The family has hired an attorney to pursue legal options related to the accident.
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