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L-39 Crash at Greenwood Lake NJ 7/10/11 - Pilot Injured

Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:08 pm

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/0 ... eenwo.html

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

Re: L-39 Crash at Greenwood Lake NJ 7/10/11 - Pilot Injured

Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:47 pm

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?


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Re: L-39 Crash at Greenwood Lake NJ 7/10/11 - Pilot Injured

Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:07 pm

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:

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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.

Re: L-39 Crash at Greenwood Lake NJ 7/10/11 - Pilot Injured

Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:58 pm

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.
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