Scott Crossfield missing

BillJ wrote:
USA Today says Crossfield missing in a 210 over Georgia in TS. Anybody
have details?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...a074738D89.DTL

04-20) 07:49 PDT Lawrenceville, Ga. (AP) --

A single-engine airplane registered to legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield,
the first man to fly at Mach 2 and Mach 3, was missing Thursday, a day after it
left Alabama for the Washington, D.C., area.


The plane was last spotted on radar Wednesday in Georgia, north of Atlanta, the
Civil Air Patrol's Georgia Wing said.


Capt. Paige Joyner said officials had no confirmation that Crossfield was in the
plane and the air patrol does not "have any confirmation who the pilot was."


A man who answered the phone at Crossfield's home in Herndon, Va., declined to
say whether Crossfield was missing and referred questions to the Civil Air
Patrol.


The plane left Prattville, Ala., around 9 a.m. Wednesday en route to Manassas,
Va.


Crossfield, now 84, became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound
piloting the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket to a speed of 1,291 mph in November
1953, according to the Edwards Air Force Base Web site.




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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE