light planes collide over Seattle?

Just saw an ad for Kiro News 4 at 11:00
It showed 2 light planes that had collided - looked bad.

Anyone know anything?

Tony

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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

It showed 2 light planes that had collided - looked bad.

Anyone know anything?

See http://www.kirotv.com/index.html for links to pix.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

heard on Fox that the float plane made it and landed safely(no fatalities),
the other plane all on board lost.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:w_AIe.224964$_o.128167@attbi_s71...
It showed 2 light planes that had collided - looked bad.

Anyone know anything?

See http://www.kirotv.com/index.html for links to pix.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Woah! That's sad...

Bryan "The monk" Chaisone

It was over Renton, not Seattle...in the pattern, east of the airport.
Cessna 150 pilot, apparently with the sun in his eyes, hit the floats of a
float plane on downwind and knocked them about 30 degrees out of alignment.
150 went straight into an empty school; float plane pilot, a very
experienced flight instructor and 135 pilot, opted against a water landing
and put it on the grass. Anyone who has driven/flown into the sun knows that
"unlimited visibility" shrinks down to zero under those conditions.

Tower-controlled airport, BTW. A contract tower, not an FAA tower.

Bob Gardner

"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-215439.20152404082005@shawnews...
Just saw an ad for Kiro News 4 at 11:00
It showed 2 light planes that had collided - looked bad.

Anyone know anything?

Tony

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

Bob Gardner wrote:

150 went straight into an empty school

That's going to cost us.

Anyone who has driven/flown into the sun
knows that "unlimited visibility" shrinks down to zero under those
conditions.

Tower-controlled airport, BTW. A contract tower, not an FAA tower.

I hear complaints about the tower at my "home" airport, and I've made a few
of them myself. But I seem to recall once when they shifted the active to
permit us to avoid that problem as much as possible.

- Andrew

In article , Bob Gardner wrote:

Tower-controlled airport, BTW. A contract tower, not an FAA tower.

I have to ask, just out of curiosity... does that make any particular
difference or is of any noteworthy mention, other than what agency
directly signs the employees' paychecks?

-Dan

Oh, Boy and this is rainy Seattle. Makes the M..gs closure look sounder
every day.
Uncle Bobby RIP.

And that was SPLAT into a SCHOOL BUILDING.

Polarized sunglasses anyone?

JG

Jay Honeck wrote:

See http://www.kirotv.com/index.html for links to pix.

Well, that reporter seems to know his or her stuff.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Oh yeah. We had 0.7 inches of rain in July, and none since the first of
August...the next week or ten days are forecast to be dry, too.

Bob Gardner

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ups.com...
Oh, Boy and this is rainy Seattle. Makes the M..gs closure look sounder
every day.
Uncle Bobby RIP.

And that was SPLAT into a SCHOOL BUILDING.

Polarized sunglasses anyone?

JG