Piccolo aereo si schianta nel montana
l'aereo è un Pilatus pc 12
sembra ci siano 17 morti
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l'aereo è un Pilatus pc 12
sembra ci siano 17 morti
fonte sky
Incidente aereo nel montana
- Autore Discussione Doctorstein
- Data d'inizio
BUTTE (Montana, Usa) - Diciassette persone, tra le quali molti bambini, hanno perso la vita in un incidente aereo avvenuto ieri sera in Montana, nel nord degli Stati Uniti. Il velivolo, un monomotore Pilaturs PC-12, si è schiantato nel cimitero di Butte: con ogni probabilità il pilota stava cercando di effettuare un atterraggio d'emergenza. Nessun sopravvissuto tra quanti erano a bordo, nessun ferito a terra.
L'aereo era partito dalla California ed era diretto alla località sciistica di Bozeman, a 140 chilometri a sud-est del luogo della sciagura, meta di una gita scolastica di 12 bambini tra i sei e i dieci anni e dei loro quattro accompagnatori. A quanto pare, il pilota si è trovato in difficoltà, ha chiesto di cambiare il piano di volo e ha tentato di atterrare a Butte. Ma non ce l'ha fatta. Testimoni citati dai mezzi di informazione locali hanno raccontato di aver visto l'aereo cadere praticamente in verticale sul cimitero e prendere fuoco dopo l'impatto a terra.
(23 marzo 2009)
L'aereo era partito dalla California ed era diretto alla località sciistica di Bozeman, a 140 chilometri a sud-est del luogo della sciagura, meta di una gita scolastica di 12 bambini tra i sei e i dieci anni e dei loro quattro accompagnatori. A quanto pare, il pilota si è trovato in difficoltà, ha chiesto di cambiare il piano di volo e ha tentato di atterrare a Butte. Ma non ce l'ha fatta. Testimoni citati dai mezzi di informazione locali hanno raccontato di aver visto l'aereo cadere praticamente in verticale sul cimitero e prendere fuoco dopo l'impatto a terra.
(23 marzo 2009)
17 die in Montana plane crash with Broomfield link
Staff and wire reports
Posted: 03/22/2009 06:19:46 PM MDT
Updated: 03/22/2009 07:48:53 PM MDT
BUTTE, MONT. — Seventeen people, including several children, died here today when their plane crashed in a cemetery 500 feet short of an airport, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The single-engine turboprop plane had departed from Oroville, Calif., en route to Bozeman, about 86 miles east of the crash site.
"We think that it was probably a ski trip for the kids," FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said.
While the names of those killed have not been released, the crash has at least one Colorado connection.
The 2001 Pilatus PC-12 business jet was finished and originally sold by Pilatus Business Aircraft Ltd., a Broomfield-based subsidiary of Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.
The company employs about 70 people at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, where staff finish interiors and accessories and add custom design logos for the North and South American markets.
A call to Pilatus Business Aircraft CEO Thomas Bosshard was not immediately returned Sunday night.
The plane is registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Ore. I. Felkamp is listed as Eagle Cap's president in Oregon corporate records, but attempts to reach Felkamp by phone were unsuccessful.
In California, Tom Hagler said he saw a group of about a dozen children and four adults Sunday morning at the Oroville Municipal Airport, about 70 miles north of Sacramento.
Hagler, owner of Table Mountain Aviation, described the children as ranging from about 6- to 10-year olds. He let the children into his building to use the restroom.
"There were a lot of kids in the group," he said. "A lot of really cute kids."
Witnesses told local TV reporters that the plane crash created a huge fireball in the Holy Cross Cemetery near Bert Mooney Airport.
Fergus said the plane was attempting to land about 2:30 p.m. when it caught fire.
A eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was flying erractically before the crash.
"It looked like a stunt plane," 14-year-old Kenny Gulick told the paper. "All of a sudden the pilot lost control and went into a nosedive. He couldn't pull out in time and crashed into the trees of the cemetery."
Martha and Steve Guidoni, who were at a gas station across from the cemetery, said the plane "just nose-dived into the ground."
"My husband went over there to see if he could do anything," Martha Guidoni said.
The incident was the country's third major plane crash this year. All 155 people onboard survived after a US Airways jetliner landed in New York's Hudson River in January when a flock of geese disabled both engines, and a commuter plane fell on a house in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 passengers and a man in the home in February.
Denver Post
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N128CM/history/20090322/1840Z/KOVE/KBTM
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/41658637.html
Staff and wire reports
Posted: 03/22/2009 06:19:46 PM MDT
Updated: 03/22/2009 07:48:53 PM MDT
BUTTE, MONT. — Seventeen people, including several children, died here today when their plane crashed in a cemetery 500 feet short of an airport, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The single-engine turboprop plane had departed from Oroville, Calif., en route to Bozeman, about 86 miles east of the crash site.
"We think that it was probably a ski trip for the kids," FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said.
While the names of those killed have not been released, the crash has at least one Colorado connection.
The 2001 Pilatus PC-12 business jet was finished and originally sold by Pilatus Business Aircraft Ltd., a Broomfield-based subsidiary of Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.
The company employs about 70 people at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, where staff finish interiors and accessories and add custom design logos for the North and South American markets.
A call to Pilatus Business Aircraft CEO Thomas Bosshard was not immediately returned Sunday night.
The plane is registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Ore. I. Felkamp is listed as Eagle Cap's president in Oregon corporate records, but attempts to reach Felkamp by phone were unsuccessful.
In California, Tom Hagler said he saw a group of about a dozen children and four adults Sunday morning at the Oroville Municipal Airport, about 70 miles north of Sacramento.
Hagler, owner of Table Mountain Aviation, described the children as ranging from about 6- to 10-year olds. He let the children into his building to use the restroom.
"There were a lot of kids in the group," he said. "A lot of really cute kids."
Witnesses told local TV reporters that the plane crash created a huge fireball in the Holy Cross Cemetery near Bert Mooney Airport.
Fergus said the plane was attempting to land about 2:30 p.m. when it caught fire.
A eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was flying erractically before the crash.
"It looked like a stunt plane," 14-year-old Kenny Gulick told the paper. "All of a sudden the pilot lost control and went into a nosedive. He couldn't pull out in time and crashed into the trees of the cemetery."
Martha and Steve Guidoni, who were at a gas station across from the cemetery, said the plane "just nose-dived into the ground."
"My husband went over there to see if he could do anything," Martha Guidoni said.
The incident was the country's third major plane crash this year. All 155 people onboard survived after a US Airways jetliner landed in New York's Hudson River in January when a flock of geese disabled both engines, and a commuter plane fell on a house in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 passengers and a man in the home in February.
Denver Post
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N128CM/history/20090322/1840Z/KOVE/KBTM
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/41658637.html
