Posted on 11/21/2007 12:55:39 PM PST by Darksheare
MAYBROOK, N. Y. - The pilot was killed and two passengers injured in the crash of a single-engine plane in the woods near Stewart International Airport early Wednesday, authorities said.
The plane lost contact with controllers before 2 a.m. when it was attempting a second landing at the airport following a failed first approach, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. State Police said one of the passengers called 911 after the crash.
Rescuers found the wreckage hours later. Pilot Brian H. Early of Radnor, Pa., was found dead, police said.
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The plane had been pretty though.
It sounded dd that the pilot was ‘disoriented’ though.
The SR 20 has partial glass cockpit instruments from what I read.
If he was VFR only, why was he out at 0100 in the conditions we had here?
Something doesn’t sound right.
“dd”?
*sigh*
“odd”.
VFR flight into darkness with haze takes away the horizon. Without a visual reference, the human body is fairly easy to disorient. Google graveyard spiral. The search will give you plenty of information learned from studies of the effect.
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