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Plane crashes into house in Sitka
ADN ^
| August 6, 2007
| PETER PORCO
Posted on 08/06/2007 7:22:49 PM PDT by skeptoid
A small plane crashed this afternoon into a house on the edge of downtown Sitka, setting the house afire in a wreck whose flames could be seen by many in town as well as many of the nearly 3,000 tourists there, according to authorities.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: crash; malibu; sitka
Other eyewitness reports say the Piper Malibu hit trees, wires, then the house around 1:15 AKDT today.
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posted on
08/06/2007 7:22:52 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
To: skeptoid
Piper Malibu: nice little multi-seat turboprop...
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posted on
08/06/2007 7:31:08 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA; Paleo Conservative
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posted on
08/06/2007 7:48:46 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
To: skeptoid
I spent a few December hours in beautiful Sitka a few years ago:
Unfortunately, my comment is false if 'Sitka' is replaced by 'Famke':
To: snarks_when_bored
Pretty inappropriate comment, ...... but that
IS Sitka.
Drinking this evening?
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posted on
08/06/2007 7:53:57 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
To: skeptoid
Pretty inappropriate comment, ...... but that IS Sitka.
Death and beauty are eternal ideas.
To: snarks_when_bored
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posted on
08/06/2007 9:28:34 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: milford421
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:49:01 PM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
To: skeptoid
Any update on casualties?
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posted on
08/07/2007 12:11:30 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
At least
4 fatal....(no survivors). No casualties on the ground.
. ...owned by Hendrickson Aviation of Lewes, Delaware.
Skies at the time were overcast with "patchy fog," Schmitt said.
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posted on
08/07/2007 12:51:07 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
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