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Murdoughnut

Murdoughnut

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Been a bad stretch for me. I knew this pilot - met him a couple of months ago at a YNG Board meeting, as he had recently taken over running the flight school their. Had one of those great pilot-to-pilot conversations amidst other non-aviation related business. Guy was clearly very excited about his job and the school he was running.


Two weeks ago I was waiting for my rental 172 to be fueled when an older gentleman came up and started chatting. He ended up lining up to depart right after me. He died 10-minutes later.

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Two experienced pilots dead after Harnett County plane goes down minutes after takeoff

Two experienced pilots died in a plane crash in Harnett County on Friday. North Carolina State Highway Patrol identified Anton van Deth and Dwight Frye as the two on board.
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I knew Deight well. Accomplished and well-loved and respected. I didn’t know the owner. So hard to even speculate how it happened. The whole community is in shock.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
I knew Deight well. Accomplished and well-loved and respected. I didn’t know the owner. So hard to even speculate how it happened. The whole community is in shock.
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Yeah, it seemed like he was someone everyone at TTA knew - really hits you in the gut when it's a pilot whose skills you really respect.
 
Murdoughnut said:
Been a bad stretch for me. I knew this pilot - met him a couple of months ago at a YNG Board meeting, as he had recently taken over running the flight school their. Had one of those great pilot-to-pilot conversations amidst other non-aviation related business. Guy was clearly very excited about his job and the school he was running.


Two weeks ago I was waiting for my rental 172 to be fueled when an older gentleman came up and started chatting. He ended up lining up to depart right after me. He died 10-minutes later.

www.wral.com

Two experienced pilots dead after Harnett County plane goes down minutes after takeoff

Two experienced pilots died in a plane crash in Harnett County on Friday. North Carolina State Highway Patrol identified Anton van Deth and Dwight Frye as the two on board.
www.wral.com www.wral.com
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Very sad :(

Sorry for your loss.
 
Sorry. I get it... I still can't look at Catalina Island (every damn time I depart from LAX, BTW) without thinking about my ex-"boss" and him flying into the side of a hill and taking out 4 other people last year. I'm still waiting for that final NTSB report to come out on his accident, but it isn't going to give me any closure.

Sometimes, things just suck and happen for no reason.
 
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I've been desensitized to this over the years, but your first is always the worst. Mine was this one ... the only other young guy in our flying club asked me if I wanted to go up with him as he was feeling rusty. I couldn't that weekend because my wife was running the Disney Marathon. He took his parents up instead and all three of them were killed on that flight.

thewaffles

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A buddy from flight school (CAMS) just called me about a crash @ KPIE this evening... The plane is from a flying club (www.pinellaspilots.org) and I know that Murdoughnut is a member of it, so I just want to make sure that he wasn't on it... Such a tragedy, may they RIP.

Three dead in small plane crash in Tampa Bay

Saturday, January 12, 2008

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Three people are reported dead in a plane crash off the Bayside Bridge in Pinellas County. (slideshow)

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Murdoughnut said:
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I've been desensitized to this over the years, but your first is always the worst. Mine was this one ... the only other young guy in our flying club asked me if I wanted to go up with him as he was feeling rusty. I couldn't that weekend because my wife was running the Disney Marathon. He took his parents up instead and all three of them were killed on that flight.

thewaffles

Thread 'Murdoughnut!!!!'

A buddy from flight school (CAMS) just called me about a crash @ KPIE this evening... The plane is from a flying club (www.pinellaspilots.org) and I know that Murdoughnut is a member of it, so I just want to make sure that he wasn't on it... Such a tragedy, may they RIP.

Three dead in small plane crash in Tampa Bay

Saturday, January 12, 2008

planecrash.jpg

Three people are reported dead in a plane crash off the Bayside Bridge in Pinellas County. (slideshow)

PINELLAS COUNTY (Bay News 9) --...
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The NTSB report on that one is a tough read.

I don't have nearly the number of hours most do here nor do I do it professionally, but I lost my first CFI in a freak accident when the wing fell off his Queen Air in level flight while flying fire attack. It was ultimately attributed to a hard landing that had damaged the wing spar months prior to the accident flight and hadn't been repaired properly. He didn't do anything wrong.
 
FlyingAccountant said:
The NTSB report on that one is a tough read.

I don't have nearly the number of hours most do here nor do I do it professionally, but I lost my first CFI in a freak accident when the wing fell off his Queen Air in level flight while flying fire attack. It was ultimately attributed to a hard landing that had damaged the wing spar months prior to the accident flight and hadn't been repaired properly. He didn't do anything wrong.
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That the Wikieup accident up there south of I-40?
 
FlyingAccountant said:
Yeah, that's the one. Falcon Executive Aviation was the operator, although I think they changed their name shortly after the incident.
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I’d worked a number of times with the fire chief who was also killed, back when he worked for Northwest Fire district. Was a good guy. Those 90 series King Air planes are common as air attack observation planes. Like you said, an unfortunate structural failure during normal maneuvering due to prior damage that the pilot would never have known about.
 
MikeD said:
I’d worked a number of times with the fire chief who was also killed, back when he worked for Northwest Fire district. Was a good guy. Those 90 series King Air planes are common as air attack observation planes. Like you said, an unfortunate structural failure during normal maneuvering due to prior damage that the pilot would never have known about.
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Not familiar with that accident, but the jump plane accident in I believe Hawaii was a similar deal. The AD and the various compliance methods and AMOCs on the king air wing spars and fittings are (or used to be when I took the test) one of the example cases in the Inspection Authorization test.
 
Roger Roger said:
Not familiar with that accident, but the jump plane accident in I believe Hawaii was a similar deal. The AD and the various compliance methods and AMOCs on the king air wing spars and fittings are (or used to be when I took the test) one of the example cases in the Inspection Authorization test.
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They were orbiting over a brush fire scene a few years back. Nothing special in terms of maneuvering, when the left wing separated just outboard the engine with no warning and the rest of the fuselage impacted the ground.

Accident Beechcraft C90 King Air N3688P, Saturday 10 July 2021

On July 10, 2021, about 1254 mountain standard time, a Beech C-90, turbo prop airplane, N3688P, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Wikieup, Arizona. The pilot and Air ...
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FlyingAccountant said:
The NTSB report on that one is a tough read.

I don't have nearly the number of hours most do here nor do I do it professionally, but I lost my first CFI in a freak accident when the wing fell off his Queen Air in level flight while flying fire attack. It was ultimately attributed to a hard landing that had damaged the wing spar months prior to the accident flight and hadn't been repaired properly. He didn't do anything wrong.
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good to see Pinellas Pilots still going though, a lot of clubs and schools from 08 aren't around these days...
 
knot4u said:
Do you use Facebook?
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Occasionally. One of my Northwest Fire district friends brought it up today, with the passenger having been the former chief of dept. I’d worked with him a few times on fire/rescue assignments, and he was an overall a good guy. Later, saw they had put up a dedication.
 
MikeD said:
Occasionally. One of my Northwest Fire district friends brought it up today, with the passenger having been the former chief of dept. I’d worked with him a few times on fire/rescue assignments, and he was an overall a good guy. Later, saw they had put up a dedication.
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I always wondered how folks remember weird anniversaries, I'm not convinced it isn't Facebook, the overwhelming majority of folks can't remember what they had for breakfast. Certain things in my life stick with me like glue and I'll never forget any of it, but pretending I remember the exact date I had to put my best dog down is fuzzy. I loved that dog.
 
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