Airplane down was a C-150, one fatality. The other was a Twin Comanche
which landed safely, but damaged. They apparantly collided on the downwind
leg. All we heard in the FBO was a call "entering downwind" and then
"**final **runway, we've had a midair, the other plane went down". The two
guys in the twin were pretty shaken up. Headings of the planes at time of
collision is sketchy at this point. I think they did see each other, though
obviously not soon enough.

A middle-aged couple who had been flying north of the area decided to call
it quits earlier than planned because, according to them, too many planes in
the sky, erratic pattern flying and lack of position calls. Last week a cop
showed up at the FBO with a tow bar that had fallen off of a plane and
landed in a neighborhood, and now this (the 150 crashed 10' from the monkey
bars on a playground; no one hurt on the ground that I know of).

I almost hit a bonanza last year on the downwind at CLW that didn't call his
position - an all too common problem.


"Ron Lee" wrote in message
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CNN Headline News reported a mid air event between two aircraft at a
Clearwater FL airpark. One plane had a tail number of N6622S if I
read the upside down numbers correctly.

Ron Lee