Lear 35 crash CA

[Flyin Tony]

Lear Down

Just saw on the news that a Lear went down around SAN

 

[fly4'em]

this is the only one i could find with the information of the crash.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4572333,00.html

 

[rumpletumbler]

Lear Jet Crash Near San Diego Kills Five

Anyone know what happened?

AP
SAN DIEGO — An ambulance airplane crashed in a remote, mountainous area near the Mexican border early Sunday, shortly after taking off from a small San Diego air field, killing all five people on board, authorities said.

The Learjet carried two pilots, two paramedics and a nurse on a flight bound for Albuquerque, N.M., said Larry Levy, CEO and medical director of Albuquerque-based Med Flight Air Ambulance, which owned the aircraft.

The plane went down around 12:30 a.m., about two miles east of Brown Field. It was the company's first crash since starting operations in 1979, he said.

Emergency personnel had to hike to the largely inaccessible crash site, said Larri Frelow, an operations manager for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The cause of the crash had not been determined. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board were investigating, Levy said.

The crew was returning to Albuquerque after carrying a patient from Mexico to San Diego, Levy said. The airstrip just north of the border is used as a port of entry for private aircraft arriving in California from Mexico and by military and law enforcement aircraft.

Radio contact was lost just one minute after takeoff, Levy said.

Med Flight Air Ambulance suspended operations "to give the crews time to debrief and cope with the circumstances," Levy said. The company has about 100 employees at bases in Albuquerque; El Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nev.

The company withheld the names of the victims, but Levy said four were based at Albuquerque and the fifth worked out of El Paso.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136430,00.html

 

[2000flyer]

Isn't that near the same location Reba McIntyre's Hawker crashed a few years ago?

 

[2000flyer]

See post on the same subject in the General section. They have a link also.

 

[rumpletumbler]

I don't know. I watched a video half asleep yesterday though where John King said there was a mountoooon out there east of the field and that Reba's band had taken off and flown into it trying to pick up their clearance in the air. They were also IMC at the time.

 

[flyboytop1]

san diego crash

not sure what happened but I've flown into Brown Field- just south of San diego city, many times in a DC-9. Nice size mountains just east of field. ATC won't let you below 5 thousand so you need to do that vor circling to get in. you can't get ATC on ground so we (USA JEt) call an 800 # while taxiing out to get clearance and void time-so we're filed and ready to go. I've always taken off to the west and will with calm winds and climb out according to departure procedures and obstruction issues. This accident unfortunately confirms to me at least-I'll always get a IFR clearance before takeoff-vfr or ifr...

 

[Flyboy Sabre 65]

Anyone know anything about the Hendrick motorsports plane that crashed today? Just heard about it at the end of the race!

 

[celloman]

Med Flight based out of Albuquerque, NM lost a Lear 35

Thoughts and prayers go out to fam and co workers.


http://www.albuquerquejournal.com/news/state/apjet10-24-04.htm

 

[FN FAL]

Evidently no one wants to hear about it...it's not a stock car team or a 121 crash.