Java_Bob

Plane Crash

Some of you may know my ex-wife, Janet. She had started taking
flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license
shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year. Yesterday
afternoon,she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting when she
was forced to make an emergency landing in Southern Tennessee because of
bad weather.

Some could call it a crash; an accident at the least.
Our kids(luckily) were with me at the Beach House this weekend.
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a
preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident.

Janet was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR
(Instrument Flight Rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (Visual
Flight Rating) license.

The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient
fuel on board.
No one on the ground was injured.

Photographs below were taken at the scene, show the extent of
damage to her aircraft.

She was very lucky.