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Snoopy Baxley
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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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Anyone know any details about the 2- place Ultralite crash close to
Pensacola, Florida ?....
Stephen
Firefly
Pansey, Alabama
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Mike Schnabel
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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Here is some info from but not much. Not sure what type aircraft was involved.
LILLIAN, Ala. (AP) One man was killed and another injured Wednesday morning in the crash of a small ultralight plane in a rural area of Baldwin County near the Alabama-Florida line.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Department spokesman John Murphy said the aircraft with two men aboard crashed about 9:15 a.m. near an airstrip off Shields Road in the Lillian community.
The pilot, Scott Hanft of Lillian, died in the crash. Friends said he turned 50 years old Wednesday. The plane owner, Charles Bingle, was badly injured in the crash and airlifted to a nearby hospital.
or click link...
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-21/114548605986960.xml&storylist=alabamanews
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Mike S
Manchester TN
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Flycrazy8(at)aol.com wrote:
Anyone know any details about the 2- place Ultralite crash close to
Pensacola, Florida ?....
Stephen
Firefly
Pansey, Alabama
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Mike Schnabel
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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One more news link, still no aircraft make identified...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12391356/
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Mike Schnabel <tnfirestar2(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is some info from but not much. Not sure what type aircraft was involved.
LILLIAN, Ala. (AP) One man was killed and another injured Wednesday morning in the crash of a small ultralight plane in a rural area of Baldwin County near the Alabama-Florida line.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Department spokesman John Murphy said the aircraft with two men aboard crashed about 9:15 a.m. near an airstrip off Shields Road in the Lillian community.
The pilot, Scott Hanft of Lillian, died in the crash. Friends said he turned 50 years old Wednesday. The plane owner, Charles Bingle, was badly injured in the crash and airlifted to a nearby hospital.
or click link...
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-21/114548605986960.xml&storylist=alabamanews
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Mike S
Manchester TN
Firestar2 503
Flycrazy8(at)aol.com wrote:
Anyone know any details about the 2- place Ultralite crash close to
Pensacola, Florida ?....
Stephen
Firefly
Pansey, Alabama
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Mike Schnabel
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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Looks like it was a Chinook 2 seater ...
Last link..
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1145610964277920.xml&coll=3
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Mike Schnabel <tnfirestar2(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is some info from but not much. Not sure what type aircraft was involved.
LILLIAN, Ala. (AP) One man was killed and another injured Wednesday morning in the crash of a small ultralight plane in a rural area of Baldwin County near the Alabama-Florida line.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Department spokesman John Murphy said the aircraft with two men aboard crashed about 9:15 a.m. near an airstrip off Shields Road in the Lillian community.
The pilot, Scott Hanft of Lillian, died in the crash. Friends said he turned 50 years old Wednesday. The plane owner, Charles Bingle, was badly injured in the crash and airlifted to a nearby hospital.
or click link...
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-21/114548605986960.xml&storylist=alabamanews
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Mike S
Manchester TN
Firestar2 503
Flycrazy8(at)aol.com wrote:
Anyone know any details about the 2- place Ultralite crash close to
Pensacola, Florida ?....
Stephen
Firefly
Pansey, Alabama
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cspoke
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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It was a Chinook two seat. It had been rebuild and test flown about two weeks prior to the accident. It is suspected that there was some type of engine failure or power loss.
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Snoopy Baxley
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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It was a Chinook two seat. It had been rebuild and test flown about two weeks
prior to the accident. It is suspected that there was some type of engine
failure or power loss.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=30106#30106
Thanks Guys for the info....This what I found out too...
Elberta man is killed in plane crash
Thursday, April 20, 2006
By DANIEL JACKSON
Staff Reporter
LILLIAN -- An Elberta pilot died on his 50th birthday Wednesday when the
experimental aircraft he was flying with a friend crashed in a pasture in
this eastern Baldwin County community.
Scott Hanft died immediately after the plane went down about 9 a.m., just
north of a pond at a residence on Sunset Drive in Lillian, the Baldwin
County Sheriff's Office reported.
His passenger, Charles Bingle, 61, of Elberta, was airlifted to Pensacola's
Baptist Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition after surgery
Wednesday evening, said Stephanie Young, the hospital's assistant director
of nursing.
As members of the Lite Blue Angels, a group of about 40 pilots that fly
experimental and ultralight aircraft from a private airstrip nearby, Hanft
and Bingle had plenty of flying experience, according to several who knew
them.
James Clark, an investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration, who
started searching through the plane's wreckage about 5 p.m., said he had not
yet determined the cause of the accident.
Larry Nix, who owns the property where the plane fell, said his wife, who
was home ill, heard the crash.
"She said it sounded like it was going to hit the house," Nix said. "She got
on a golf cart and drove out to them, but by the time she got out there,
some of the guys that were watching them fly at the airstrip had come over
the fence to help."
Ian Garnham, a member of the Lite Blue Angels since about 1996, said Hanft
flew three or four circles solo on a flight path around the airstrip at
Shield's Field, then landed and went up again with Bingle, who owns the
aircraft.
Garnham said experimental aircraft like the one that crashed -- a Chinook
two-seater, single-engine pusher -- do not meet FAA regulations, but they
are proven designs that have been in the air worldwide for years.
An average flight in the plane is about 30 to 40 miles at an altitude of
about 1,000 feet, according to club members.
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