jsfox(at)adelphia.net
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 Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: Fwd: Flying Lesson....2 |
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Let's see if it works this time
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> Subject: : Flying Lesson.....
> My ex-wife had started taking flying lessons about the time our
> divorce started. She got her license shortly before our divorce
> was final, later that same year. Yesterday
> afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was
> piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in
> Southern Tennessee because of bad weather. Some could call it a
> crash; an accident at the least. Our kids were with me at the
> Beach House.
> National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a
> preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the
> accident. Kristi was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic
> model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while
> only having obtained a VFR
> (visual flight rating) rating.
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> The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient
> fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.
>
> Photographs below were taken at the scene show the extent of
> damage to her aircraft.
>
> She was very lucky.
>
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