Rip 91514

[blott]

RIP 91514,

They say the 3rd time is the charm...sorry it didn't work out.

If anyone knows who was in 91514, I feel for you-I was listening to the whole thing on the radio in RDU, Blue skies my friend...

B

 

[lazy8s]

What happened??????

 

[LearLove]

??? info please

 

[blott]

GA aircraft, a mooney. Flew into IMC, declared an emergency, tried to land in RDU three times-didn't make it the last time-ended up about 6 miles south of the field. The airport was closed while it was going on.

Sad part is I took off right after they opened the airport, it was about 800 ovc with tops at 6000'. No icing during the climb...

There were alot of people on the ramp waiting for him to land, crash trucks were all rolled. Ramper comes up and ask's if I heard what was going on all excited-right in front of the passengers-He hadn't heard that the AC had made an "off airport landing" just monents before...I told him they didn't make it, and to shut up before anyone asks...

2 people were on board.

I double checked everything before TO, talk about a weird feeling...

 

[Mongolikecandy]

Very odd.... A plane with the same tail number crashed in California in 1971 with the same tail number. Fly safe-
Mongo

06/09/71 CALIMESA,CALIF N91514 NAVION A FATAL (2)

 

[TonyC]

One Dead After Small Plane Crashes in Cary

One Dead After Small Plane Crashes In Cary
Search Continues For Second Passenger

POSTED: 3:43 pm EDT May 3, 2004
UPDATED: 11:14 am EDT May 4, 2004

CARY, N.C. -- One person is dead and another feared dead after a small, single-engine plane crashed into a pond near an apartment complex in Cary Monday.

The Mooney 20 aircraft crashed into about five feet of water at a pond at Brampton Moors apartments, said officials with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Cary Police Department. The complex is located about five miles south of Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

RDU officials told NBC 17 the pilot contacted their tower around 3:20 p.m. and reported some sort of malfunction on the aircraft. Shortly after, they lost contact with the plane.

Michelle Kelly, manager of the apartment complex, told NBC 17 she watched as the plane fell from the sky, crashed through the trees and plunged into the pond.

"Immediately some residents came out of their apartments and jumped into the pond and began swimming, trying to locate (survivors) and offer them assistance," Kelly said.

Cary fire department officials say the apartments were not damaged, and no one on the ground was injured.

The search for the second person was called off Monday night when it became too dark

Authorities find second victim of Cary plane crash

7:19 pm


Authorities find second victim of Cary plane crash
Updated: 5/4/2004 5:40 PM
By: Tracey Early & Web Staff


10 divers spent much of Tuesday working to recover the second victim.

On Tuesday afternoon, searchers discovered the body of the second victim of a deadly plane crash in Cary. They recovered the body of the first victim shortly after the plane crashed into a lake at the center of Brampton Moors apartment complex on Monday. So far, officials have not released either victim's name.

At the lake Tuesday, police officers stood guard while sniffing K-9 cadaver dogs and a team of 10 divers worked to recover the second body of a deadly plane crash.

"It's challenging because the water is murky, the bottom is soft and, unfortunately, the debris field is as extensive underwater as it is on the surface,” Cary PIO Susan Moran said. “That means that there is a lot of wreckage to move through in order to be able to find what we're looking for."

The two people in the Mooney four-seat airplane were on their way to RDU from Columbia, South Carolina. With one body recovered, divers used underwater cameras and even started draining the lake to speed up the process.

The recovery efforts drew a crowd. Officials said the people that live in the apartment complex have been very cooperative during the recovery efforts. In addition to finding the second victim, divers are also working to locate the main section of the plane.

"The goal is to find that main body and then to raise it to float it up two or three feet so that the divers can search underneath it,” Moran said.

It is a search that took over 50 people from 10 different agencies to complete.

Representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration have taken over the investigation.