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Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:46 am

Sad news, my condolences to the pilots family.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-v ... icials-say

ETA: There's names under the cockpit. Dan and Lori.

Re: Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:16 am

Wow, just looked this up and the Nanchang CJ-6A is still in production?? :drink3:

Re: Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Sun Jun 16, 2019 12:25 pm

From what we've been able to piece together there's a couple of warehouses full of unassembled airplanes in China and whenever they need some they just assemble a few from their holdings. Whether or not they are still building new ones from raw materials in a factory or not is kinda unknown.

Re: Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:37 am

ffuries wrote:ETA: There's names under the cockpit. Dan and Lori.
They've announced locally on the TV news that Dan Delane perished.

Re: Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:29 pm

bdk wrote:
ffuries wrote:ETA: There's names under the cockpit. Dan and Lori.
They've announced locally on the TV news that Dan Delane perished.

Wow, looks like he was pretty accomplished, too...

http://www.tigersquadron.com/our-team/

Re: Aircraft down Saturday w/ Fatality

Mon Jun 17, 2019 3:51 pm

He was a highly skilled pilot. The terrain looks very steep and he surely picked the best possible choice available. Sad to lose such a talented pilot.
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