midair collision over Tacoma...none dead.

A woman I work with is very good friends with the pilot of the aircraft
that ended up in the water. What basically happened is that the 182 ran
over this aircraft, tearing the vertical tail off the aircraft. He said
next thing I know I am spinning. Every rotation of the spin makes a
bigger and bigger arc in the sky due to his inputs. Finally he can
basically get it right side up and with power and aileron he stalls it
into the water. Plane floats a while before sinking. After he gets his
wife out of the plane he notices missing tail. Both spend minimal time
at hospital. Meanwhile 182 jockey is all over the news saying..."That
other aircraft came out of nowhere." NTSB will most likely fault both
pilots for not seeing and avoiding.





Gatt wrote:
http://www.katu.com/news/11655946.html

TACOMA, Wash. -- Two small planes have collided over Tacoma and one of them
with two people on board crashed into Commencement Bay near Tacoma.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the other
plane with two people on board landed at Thun Field in Puyallup.

A Tacoma police boat and a privately-owned boat picked up the two people
from the bay and took them to shore. Both people from the plane were loaded
into a waiting ambulance and transported to a hospital, but a Tacoma Fire
Department spokesman said both were expected to survive.

Officials at Thun Field said the aircraft there landed with "minimal damage"
and no one on board was seriously injured.

The circumstances of the crash were not immediately known.