Planes crash in Florida?

[Timebuilder]

Earlier today, fox news ran some helo news footage of a plane wreckage in a parking lot in Florida, and suggested that this was the result of a midair.

Anyone have more on this?

 

[Mogus]

Saw a snippet on CNN that said they clipped wings. One was able to land safely and the other crashed, killing the one soul on board.

 

[jarhead]

speaking of crashes......

Published January 18, 2004 MBRF18



TORONTO -- A single-engine plane carrying at least nine people crashed Saturday in snowy weather shortly after taking off from a Canadian island in Lake Erie. Helicopters were searching the frigid water for survivors.

The pilot radioed for help shortly after taking off about 5 p.m., but controllers then lost contact with the plane, said a Coast Guard spokesman.

A helicopter found the wreckage of the Georgian Express plane about 7:30 p.m. Saturday a mile west of Ontario's Pelee Island. It was nose-down in the water with ice around it.

Helicopters were using searchlights to look for survivors in the water, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mark Freeman said. The cutter Neah Bay was headed from the Detroit area to join the search.

The plane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, was bound for Windsor, Ontario, across the border from Detroit.

The pilot was from Toronto and the passengers were all from southwestern Ontario.

Associated Press

 

[chperplt]

Thanks for the report Jarhead, but that's not the Florida accident.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/01/17/planes.crash/index.html


Two planes collide over Florida airport
Saturday, January 17, 2004 Posted: 6:08 PM EST (2308 GMT)

(CNN) -- One plane crash landed and a second managed to land safely after they collided on the final approach to Clearwater Airpark in Florida on Saturday, an airport authority spokesman said.

"The two planes touched on the downwind side (of the airpark)," operations manager Gordon Wills said. "One was able to land, but the other went down."

Video from the scene showed one of the small planes upside down in some trees on the edge of a parking lot for Clearwater's Long Center, a recreation facility with a gym and swimming pool just over a mile from the airpark.

The forward section and wings of the single-engine Cessna plane was severely damaged.

The other plane, a twin-engine Piper, was parked on the tarmac with police tape around it. It appeared to have damage on the right wingtip.

Wills was on his way to the crash site when he spoke with CNN by phone and had no other information. There are no reports of injuries.

The airpark is a small general aviation facility owned by the city of Clearwater

 

[Mevans]

This is my home field. (KCLW) It appears a C150 departed on RWY 34, turned right crosswind, entered a right downwind, then began to turn west to exit midfield. This is per the published pattern departure, A departure on a 45 takes you into KPIE's airspace pretty quick. A Comanchee was inbound from Winter Haven entering a right downwind to RWY 34. It looks like the Piper was decending and the C150 was climbing. After the collision, the Piper landed, the C150 impacted near vertical about twenty feet from a playground full of kids at a city recreatioal center, Yes, the news was alll over that aspect. The C150 had one on board whom did not survive.

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