Angel Flight Down

wrote in news:c6ae186a-5cea-4758-9797-3356c21211f2
@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

A patient being flown to Boston's Dana Farber was aboard. The flight
originated on Long Island NY's South Fork.

This seems like an extreme case of no good deed going unpunished.

Unfortunately, there is not much information, and there may not be much in
the future. This is (as best as I can tell with what is known) not a case
of scud running, not a case of going below miminums on approach, etc. And
if the one report is correct, not a case of engine failure.

Best guess... and this is NOTHING but idle speculation... he may have lost
his electrical system, and with it, all his navigation and radio gear. The
reports are consistent with someone looking for a place to land, not
knowing where he was.

"James M. Knox" wrote

Best guess... and this is NOTHING but idle speculation... he may have
lost
his electrical system, and with it, all his navigation and radio gear.
The
reports are consistent with someone looking for a place to land, not
knowing where he was.

I sure hope that is not the case. If it is, it would be a pity someone
bought the farm (along with some others) because he did not have a working
handheld radio, and possibly a handheld GPS, as backups.

What were the weather conditions at the time? My post history is lost on
this thread.
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Jim in NC

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Morgans wrote:

What were the weather conditions at the time? My post history is lost on
this thread.

Here you go.

KBOS 121354Z 35008KT 9SM -RA BKN009 BKN027 OVC050 17/15 A2970 RMK AO2
SLP056 P0002 T01720150

If you pop over to LiveATC.net, they have the full ATC feed for
the entire incident. BOS is one of their featured feeds.

Truly sad (the AFNE going down)..

BL.
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:05:40 GMT, "James M. Knox"
wrote:

wrote in news:c6ae186a-5cea-4758-9797-3356c21211f2
:

A patient being flown to Boston's Dana Farber was aboard. The flight
originated on Long Island NY's South Fork.

This seems like an extreme case of no good deed going unpunished.

Unfortunately, there is not much information, and there may not be much in
the future. This is (as best as I can tell with what is known) not a case
of scud running, not a case of going below miminums on approach, etc. And
if the one report is correct, not a case of engine failure.

Best guess... and this is NOTHING but idle speculation... he may have lost
his electrical system, and with it, all his navigation and radio gear. The
reports are consistent with someone looking for a place to land, not
knowing where he was.

As far as I know there were recorded radio comms, including
acknowledgements to alerts of low altitude, pretty much up to the end.
Reports are he came down in a nose-down spiral out of the clouds. I'll
leave it up to the NTSB to make conclusions.