• Small plane carrying children home for Thanksgiving crashes in Arizona. No survivors.
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[release]A small airplane with three men and three young children onboard crashed Wednesday evening into mile-high mountains east of Phoenix while going around 200 mph, the Pinal County sheriff said.[b]The body of one child was recovered and "it is not hopeful" there are any survivors because of the nature of the crash and explosion, said Sheriff Paul Babeu.[/b] Ten deputies spent the night on the mountain to keep it secure.[b] They and dozens of volunteers were to start searching the area at first light, he said, adding that hikers and curiosity seekers should stay away.[/b] Video from news helicopters Thursday morning showed the crash site in front of a blackened cliff.Some immediate family members are out of the country, so the names of those involved can't yet be released, Babeu said. The twin-engine aircraft [b]flew from Safford in southeastern Arizona to Mesa's Falcon Field to pick up three children for the Thanksgiving holiday[/b] and was headed back to Safford, Babeu said. KPNX-TV reported the father of the three children, who are[b] ages 5 to 9, lives in Safford. Their mother lives in Mesa.[/b] "Our hearts go out to her at this time," Babeu said. The[b] aircraft slammed into an area of rugged peaks and outcroppings in the Superstition Mountains, 40 miles east of downtown Phoenix, at about 6:30 p.m. MST Wednesday, authorities said.[/b] Callers reported hearing an explosion near a peak known as the Flat Iron, close to Lost Dutchman State Park, Sheriff's spokeswoman Angelique Graham said. Witnesses reported a fireball and an explosion. "I looked up and saw this fireball and it rose up," Dave Dibble told KPHO-TV. "All of a sudden, boom." Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson said the body of one child was recovered late Wednesday night from the crash scene. Besides the pilot and three children, a mechanic and another adult were also on board, Babeu said. Rescue personnel used infrared devices to search for bodies but had not been able to detect any sign of movement, according to Johnson. Rescue crews flown in by helicopter to reach the crash site reported finding two debris fields on fire, suggesting that the plane broke apart on impact. [b]"The fuselage is stuck down into some of the crevices of this rough terrain," Babeu said late Wednesday. "This is not a flat area, this is jagged peaks, almost like a cliff-type rugged terrain."[/b] Video after the crash showed several fires burning on the mountainside, where heavy brush is common. Flames could still be seen from the suburban communities of Mesa and Apache Junction hours later. The region is filled with steep canyons, soaring rocky outcroppings and cactus. Treasure hunters who frequent the area have been looking for the legendary Lost Dutchman mine for more than a century. Some witnesses told Phoenix-area television stations they heard a plane trying to rev its engines to climb higher before apparently hitting the mountains. The elevation is about 5,000 feet at the Superstition Mountains' highest point. Calls to Falcon Field, which mostly serves small, private planes, weren't immediately returned Wednesday night. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said the Rockwell AC-69 was registered to Ponderosa Aviation Inc. in Safford. A man who answered the phone Wednesday night at Ponderosa Aviation declined comment. Kenitzer said the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board would be investigating the cause of the crash.[/release] [img]http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/1124_crash/11078468-1-eng-US/1124_Crash_full_600.jpg[/img] :smith: [url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1124/Arizona-plane-crash-tragedy-on-Thanksgiving]Source[/url]
Great, now my birthday is ruined. :( Those poor lads. RIP.
That's fucking horrible.
Holy shit.
Well there goes my day.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33418075]Great, now my birthday is ruined. :( Those poor lads. RIP.[/QUOTE] Why is it ruined? I doubt you were in any way related to the accident. You live in Singapore.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33418292]Why is it ruined? I doubt you were in any way related to the accident. You live in Singapore.[/QUOTE] It's something known as empathy.
Aw man, that's terrible news. :( I hope the families will manage to pull through.
saw this on the news last night pretty sad
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33418292]Why is it ruined? I doubt you were in any way related to the accident. You live in Singapore.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy[/url] It's too bad that a link won't help you actually feel it.
Sounds like pilot error. If you're revving your motor to try to gain altitude right before you fly towards mountains, I think it's safe to say you don't know what you're doing.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;33418677]Sounds like pilot error. If you're revving your motor to try to gain altitude right before you fly towards mountains, I think it's safe to say you don't know what you're doing.[/QUOTE] Its actually quite common for them to do that. Without airspeed they would stall and we would have the same story all over again.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33418075]Great, now my birthday is ruined. :( Those poor lads. RIP.[/QUOTE] Cool another person who was born on thanksgiving. Or maybe the day after since you live in singapore
Oh, that's okay, I wasn't planning on being happy today, anyway.
yeah saw it all over the news here in AZ
I want to make a terrible joke but.. I can't... I just can't.. It's too sad..
I was expecting Badage boys. I'm terribly disappointed it wasn't. :(
[QUOTE=areolop;33418778]Its actually quite common for them to do that. Without airspeed they would stall and we would have the same story all over again.[/QUOTE] I was thinking if I was the pilot and knew I was going to be flying over a certain mountain peak, I'd want to have that altitude BEFORE I got in a situation where I'm trying at the last second to climb. If you wait till the last second, and by 'last second' I mean the point where if it doesn't work you're screwed, and for some reason the plane doesn't climb fast enough- what then?
If you don't take into what the picture actually is, it's quite a pretty one. Still though, my heart goes out to the families that were affected.
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;33419537]I was expecting Badage boys. I'm terribly disappointed it wasn't. :([/QUOTE] Why does everyone expect Badage boys in these threads? It's never Badage boys.
Maybe it didn't read it right, It says they were flying the children home for thanksgiving? Where were the children in the first place?
Parents broke up, kids going with dad for Turkey day.
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;33420468]Maybe it didn't read it right, It says they were flying the children home for thanksgiving? Where were the children in the first place?[/QUOTE] [quote]The twin-engine aircraft flew from Safford in southeastern Arizona to Mesa's Falcon Field to pick up three children for the Thanksgiving holiday and was headed back to Safford, Babeu said.[/quote] [editline]big booty bitches[/editline] v [QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;33420492]Parents broke up, kids going with dad for Turkey day.[/QUOTE] ^
This is just [I]plane[/I] wrong. Man, I'm going to hell for this >.>
There's a webcam video of this on Youtube, oh look here it is: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzl0eKnXoi0[/media] It appears as if the pilot flew straight into that crash.
That's quite a conveniently timed/placed recording >.>
I feel so terrible for the family.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;33420788]That's quite a conveniently timed/placed recording >.>[/QUOTE] There are actually quite a lot of webcams set up around the world just pointing at random skylines. There was a thread with instructions on how to find them with Google, but that was ages ago.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33418292]Why is it ruined? I doubt you were in any way related to the accident. You live in Singapore.[/QUOTE] I never, even as a child, understood how nationality mattered when it came to these tragedies, being taught human life has equal value everywhere on the planet and all. I later figured it had to do with people wanting to know if their friends that took a plane were affected, but it's still an oddity for me.
:suicide: Well on the bright side we can all be thankful we weren't on it.
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