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Reports indicate an overshoot and roll down an embankment. It took rescuers 2 hours to extract him and they were unsure if the ejection seats were live or not. (Still not determined) Latest report was the pilot was released from the hospital today.

Peter

Sad to hear that the driver was 'seriously injured'... I suppose that's preferable to another outcome, though.

Has anyone heard anything as to which L-39 this was?


Fade to Black...

based on this article (http://online.wsj.com/article/AP368cdcf ... 64da8.html) which identifies the pilot as "Forty-six-year-old Vatche Aghjayan of Alpine," I googled his name and found these pictures:





That site lists it as N111XN, which is listed in the registry but the info is from '99.

of course, Mr. Aghjayan may have been flying another Albatross and so I am only guessing that this is the accident aircraft.

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He was not "seriously injured." Broken collar bone, which my wife routinely gets when she dumps her race bike. Painful but hardly serious.

My information comes from a friend who also owns an L-39 and in fact knows and saw this pilot just before his accident flight.