Plane down in Ruidoso, NM

Didn't know you could get 7 people in a 310.

In any case, RIP.
 
where? It says the plane crashed in the same area as the medivac flight in 2007 which killed all 5 people on board. This is their second 5 fatality accident in 3 years.
 
KSRR is (or was) ranked as one of the top 10 most dangerous airports in the U.S. by the AOPA, if I remember correctly. It looks like a benign enough airport to get in and out of, but density altitude seems to get a lot of pilots that fly in and out of there. It can be quite warm there in the afternoon, and the winds are routinely in excess of 20 knots.

RIP.
 
Roger said:
Didn't know you could get 7 people in a 310.

In any case, RIP.
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Probably children involved.:(
I was a little nervous as a good friend of mine was departing this morning in his 310 as I finished a flight in another 310. Not his airplane.
SRR can be dangerous and deceiving.
 
Fort Worth paper is saying 5 fatal out of 7 total and it was on a second leg.


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A plane that crashed Thursday morning in Ruidoso, N.M., killing five people and injuring two teenagers, had departed from Cleburne, officials said Thursday afternoon.
"The plane came in. It stopped. We did not service the plane," Cleburne city spokesman Charlie Hodges said. "It came in from Granbury. Some people got on, and it took off again."
Hodges said he was still determining precisely when the plane departed Cleburne.
The plane, a twin-engine Cessna 310, is registered to Rod Aviation in Granbury.
"The pilot got a weather briefing yesterday for conditions between Cleburne and Ruidoso," FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said. "The plane apparently crashed on landing at Sierra Blanca, there at Ruidoso. There were seven people on board, including five fatalities. At this point it looks like the two survivors were teenagers who were airlifted to El Paso."
It's too early to determine what factors preceded the crash, about 130 miles south of Albuquerque, but weather wasn't immediately thought to be a major issue, officials said.
Emergency workers in the Ruidoso area were notified of an aircraft going down about 10 a.m. Mountain time. Sources told police the plane apparently missed the runway.
Local firefighters put out a small forest fire after the crash.
This report includes information from The Associated Press.


Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/17/2273320/plane-that-crashed-in-ruidoso.html#ixzz0r8qztHoH
 
I knew the Duree family casually and they were great people and the type you felt you knew for a lifetime after only one meeting.

RIP Rodney, Delaine, Lake.

My prayers are with the two boys who survived the crash.
 
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