"quote" on CNN's news article on 10/25/04 about the crash...

paste of copywrighted material

Driver Rusty Wallace, also a pilot, said he considered the airports in
Talladega, Ala., and Martinsville the two most dangerous facilities to
fly into for races.

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Anyone care to comment on this, or what exactly he might be referring
to. For the sake of this issue, lets assume that he was not misquoted
nor paraphrased by some well meaning journalist.

And, yea.. I looked at the plate for RNAV 12.. the rocks ARE close but
they do have separation if you fly the approach as charted...

Dave

OtisWinslow wrote:
Look at the approach chart for the RNAV 12 at MTV. Bull Mountain is the 3211
ft obstacle very close to the FAF. They'd have to have gone below the 4300
ft
minimum for that segment prior to the FAF.

Sat deal, for sure.



"Chuck" wrote in message
. ..

Don't know if there are many NASCAR fans here, but one of the teams planes
crashed today.

Right now there seems to be some conflict of the names of the passengers,
but here is one of the news stories.





Hendrick Motorsports plane crashes, police say
05:32 PM EDT on Sunday, October 24, 2004

By DANIELLE SCHULMAN / WCNC.com


A Hendrick Motorsports Aviation plane headed to the Subway 500 in
Martinsville, Virginia, has crashed in the Bull Mountain area of Virginia,
state police there confirm.

"The plane was en route to Martinsville and they lost it on radar and
that's
all the information we have," said one NASCAR official. "We've been in
contact with Rick Hendrick.we just don't have a lot of details at the
moment.we are going to say a prayer for everyone in the Hendick
organization."

Rick Hendrick was not on the plane, say NASCAR officials.

Several high-placed sources inside NASCAR confirm these passengers on the
plane: Tony Stewart's helicopter pilot (who was not piloting the plane),
two
people who were piloting the plane, John Hendrick (Rick Hendrick's
brother),
Ricky Hendrick, Randy Dorton and his two daughters.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating.

Bull Mountain lies to the west of Martinsville in the foothills of the
Blue
Ridge Mountains.

Hendrick Motorsports Aviation is based out of Concord, N.C.

A pilot for the company says that they own about 11 or 12 planes. The
pilot
says he was still waiting to hear what happened and that he had heard
something had happened.

Those planes fly all over the country, he said.

The airport the plane was heading into is called the Blue Ridge Airport
and
is eight miles southwest of Martinsville.

This airport is much smaller than the Charlotte-Douglas International
Airport, with only two runways.

There is no control tower in the immediate area. The planes that fly into
airport are supposed to get clearance to land from Greensboro. About 62
flights per day land at the airport.



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