Beej
October 24th, 2006, 09:42
Ex-Wife Involved in Air-Crash
Some of you may know my ex-wife, Judy. She had started taking flying
lessons about the time our divorce started (1995) and she got her license
shortly before our divorce was final.
Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury from 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 this weekend (thank goodness).
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary
determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and Judy was
flying a small aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating)
conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating .
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on
board. No one on the ground was injured...
A photographs below (see pic below) that was taken at the scene shows
the extent of damage to her aircraft .
She was very lucky.
http://i13.tinypic.com/48d2lvb.jpg
Some of you may know my ex-wife, Judy. She had started taking flying
lessons about the time our divorce started (1995) and she got her license
shortly before our divorce was final.
Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury from 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 this weekend (thank goodness).
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary
determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and Judy was
flying a small aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating)
conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating .
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on
board. No one on the ground was injured...
A photographs below (see pic below) that was taken at the scene shows
the extent of damage to her aircraft .
She was very lucky.
http://i13.tinypic.com/48d2lvb.jpg