Palm Beach Mid-air

[ShawnC]

Anyone got any info on the Palm Beach midair. I just heard a short blurb on Fox News, not much else except that it was over water.

 

[Vavso]

I heard

It was over the ocean off deerfield beach 2 small planes 4-5 fatals

 

[FLGator911]

Uh oh...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...h617,0,4453395.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Well, looks like one plane was a Cessna owned by Gulfstream Academy, and apparently both planes took off from Pompano Air Park.

 

[dsee8driver]

Sad day..

Just spoke to a friend that works as a mechanic at the GulfStream Academy. It was one of their Cessnas, piloted by a student who had just earned his private pilots a week ago, with his wife and 12 year old daughter. The other aircraft has been reported to be a light twin, piloted by a female. Once again, prayers out to the families involved.

 

[blade230]

A very sad day indeed.

 

[T-Gates]

A very sad day. The pilot was a real good guy just taking his family for a ride. Brand new Private Pilot.......RIP


--03M

 

[surfnole]

Sometimes I think see and avoid is just a placebo we tell ourselves. Several years back there was a midair off the coast of Daytona. Two GA aircraft going in opposite directions in perfect VFR weather.

As a new private pilot with his family on board, I am sure this guy must have been extra cautious looking out for traffic.

 

[Flying Illini]

Sometimes I think see and avoid is just a placebo we tell ourselves. Several years back there was a midair off the coast of Daytona. Two GA aircraft going in opposite directions in perfect VFR weather.

I concur. See and Avoid sounds simple enough but aircraft can be surprisingly difficult to spot, especially at dusk like this case. What gives me the heebie-jeebies is having ATC call traffic at our such and such and then not being able to find it. Especially if it is relatively close distance and altitude wise. Sometimes you can look all you want and never see an aircraft that was less than a mile away and maybe only had 500' vertical separation from you. Very eerie. Maybe the new mode S transponders will catch on and in a few years all aircraft will be equipped with them and coverage will be fairly complete so that all GA aircraft can have a form of TIS.

Prayers to all who knew these pilots and their passengers.

 

[Publishers]

aircraft

182 and a 172 with the 172 being the Gulfstream aircraft. Both saw ech other at the last minute.

It is hard to look at the sights- we had a great sunset- point out things to your passengers, make sure you are staying level and off the coast. and look for traffic all at the same time for even more experienced pilots. If anything, the new ones tend to do this better.

From the people I interviewed-- they went straight in from 500 which happens quickly.

 

[WrightAvia]

this was just out from a local channel

minutes ago. Now they are saying they just recovered 3 bodies.

http://www.click10.com/news/2277162/detail.html

 

[Publishers]

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