Posted on 03/22/2009 3:44:57 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
No info yet, breaking headline on CNN TV..
FAA saying 17 dead according to FOX
Prayers going out.
Weather very unsettled around here now - snow rain, wind squalls.
If I remember correctly, the airport is atop a butte.
http://www.ktvm.com/montana_news.php?id=0bf5a4b028209b7407b10e406880a01c
17 DEAD IN BUTTE PLANE CRASH
Author: Staff Reports and Associated Press
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson says 17 people were killed in a plane crash in Butte.
The NewsChannel’s Keith Bertog is on the story and will have updates.
nothing on cnn or fox now. when they get more details i guess.
Oh dear, praying.
Wondering what type of plane, 17 dead.
KTVQ.com
http://www.ktvq.com
http://www.ktvq.com/global/story.asp?s=10050868
“Plane crashes in Butte”
Posted: March 22, 2009 03:30 PM
Updated: March 22, 2009 03:31 PM
Reporting from KXLF in Butte
SNIPPET: “Emergency crews are at the scene of the plane crash Butte that happened at about 3:00 p.m. on afternoon.
The twin-engine plane went down in the Holy Cross Cemetery near Bert Mooney Airport and officials tell us that there are fatalities...”
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2.../03/22/breaking/hjjajghhidgdia.txt
This is quite a string of coincidences. I heard 2 navy ships collided in the strait of hormuz during the week, now plane crashes, hubby mentioned a sub collision a while back. Starting to add up to alot of incidences. Hubby was starting to wonder if there was test runs of radar jamming or other interference. He is ex army, and said he felt it would be highly unlikely about the navy ship collisions......
BUTTE, Mont. - A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says 17 people are dead after a plane crashed while approaching the airport in Butte.
Spokesman Mike Fergus says the single engine turboprop plane departed from Orville, Calif., at about 11 a.m. Pacific time. The pilot had filed a flight plan showing a final destination of Bozeman.
Fergus says the pilot canceled his flight plan at some point and headed for Butte. The plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport while attempting to land and caught fire.
(snip)
Fergus says the plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing Inc. in Enterprise, Oregon, but he doesn’t know who was operating the plane.
(snip)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29828359/
Prayers and RIP for the victims.
If "a while back" is a couple of days, I think these are the same incident.
He may be thinking of an incident a few days earlier in which a Navy cruiser ran aground in Hawaii.
The ships in Hormuz, this week. The subs colliding, over a month ago. The ship running arground in Hawaaii, I had not heard of that.....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29828359/
He says preliminary reports indicate the dead include numerous children.
The Montana Standard reported on its Web site that the plane crashed in the Holy Cross Cemetery, just south of the airport. An eyewitness told the Standard that the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.
Thank you Maggie F for the additional info.
The small, single-engine plane may have been carrying several young children who may have been en route for a ski vacation, The Montana Standard reported.
It is unclear if anyone on the ground was injured.
An eyewitness to the crash told The Montana Standard the plane was doing steep angle turns and then went into a nose dive.
I don’t recall a sub collision a month ago.
With all the other cr@p going on, I could easily have forgotten or missed it entirely.
The collision in the Straits of Hormuz involved a sub.
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