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taildragon(at)msn.com
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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: Sad News |
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A friend to local EAA Chapter 62 died in a C-180 crash over the weekend.
This is a very big deal for everyone at Reid Hillview Airport and the surrounding areas. He took his skills and applied them to the smaller general aviation community. Not many people do that these days. He repositioned planes in his shop hangar so EAA Chapter 62 would have a place to meet once a month.
Here is the Associated Press report:
| Quote: | >NTSB investigating plane crash in Southern Oregon
>GOLD HILL, Ore. - Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene Monday of a plane crash in a rugged, remote region of Southern Oregon that killed a California couple and two other people over the weekend.
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>Curry County Marine Deputy Ted Heath said evidence of the Saturday crash, near Half Moon Bar Lodge on the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River, suggests that the 1965 Cessna's right wing clipped the top of a tree and came apart.
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>"A witness told me that the plane had gone downriver, and was flying low and sounded like there were no problems," Heath said. "Then, it took a hard left turn right above the river, and clipped the top of a tree with the wing. That piece came off, which shifted the plane. It nose-dived down, and immediately exploded."
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>The wing of the plane was found apart from the rest of the machine, Heath said, and had not burned.
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>The plane was flown by aircraft mechanic Vern Robert Miller, 60, of San Jose, Calif., whom Heath described as a "very accomplished pilot." His wife, Elizabeth George Miller, 58, was also on board with passengers, Sharon Viola Hanson, 61, and Roberta Ellen Way, 65, both from Creswell.
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>Hanson and Way had been friends for nearly 40 years, raising their kids together and taking joint family vacations. The two were at their annual girls' getaway weekend at the secluded Paradise Lodge on the Rogue River.
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>Way's husband, Bob, said the pair apparently accepted an impromptu invitation from Miller, who had just delivered supplies to the lodge and had another delivery to make at a lodge upriver.
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morid(at)northland.lib.mi
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: Sad News |
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Roger, my condolences to you and all those in Chap 62. Even though I did
not know him, the loss of a fellow pilot is always a sad day for me.
Deke
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