Peter Duniho wrote:

"gregg" wrote in message
...

Also, the Boston Globe article had a NUMBer of facts totally wrong about
hte
case.

Like the spelling of the name of the airplane?

I mispelled the name. So sorry.

But no, I was more thinking about the article statements like:

"State police said Lake may have been forced to land because of a mechanical
problem with the plane's left engine."

- the visible smoke was coming from the right engine. Doesn't preclude
the possibility of the left engine being bad as well, but both the tower
my sister and and I saw the smoke from the right.

"But around noon, as one of the plane's engines was "running rough," he
returned to the airport.."

- He had not really left the airport, though I suppose this is a nitpick.
He was on climbout when the tower called him and said he had smoke from
the right engine.


".....and landed in a grassy field about a quarter of a mile from a
runway,.."

This statement plus the "returned to the airport", can be misleading. It
might make one think he didn't make the airport. But he did..he landed in a
grassy area between a taxiway and a runway.

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