Posted on 11/23/2011 7:19:40 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
A plane crashed in Arizona's Superstition Mountains, according to ABC News Phoenix affiliate KNXV, citing witnesses and local authorities -- but officials told ABC News that passenger flights at major local airports all were accounted for.
It was not immediately clear how big a plane may have crashed or how many people were involved.
Dark video transmitted from the scene appeared to show glowing areas in the mountains, possibly fires.
Witnesses said they saw the plane crash and flames erupt around 6:40 p.m. local time, KNXV reported.
"What we saw was a small plane," said Mark Klein, who lives at the base
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All too typical CFIT, desert, mountains, night, multiple people on A/C, conversation....
I think I posted too quickly, I was trying to see who owned the airplane, sorry if I seemed rude!
Searchers have found the body of one child, 5-9 years old. Just reported on Fox 10 TV Phoenix.
I was born, raised and worked in Superior. A a youngster, walked through a lot of the Superstitions. Not a good place to crash a plane certainly. What a shame.
It is bad. It sounds like it was an accident direct from take-off.
Thank you.
I too have spent many hours in those locations with good memories. Used to go through Apache Junction(story of a lifetime there) on the way up to the Magollian Rim with more lifetime memories. Beautiful landscape.
Witnesses said the twin-engine plane and a second aircraft were flying around the mountain when the accident unfolded.
The one little plane kept going straight and the other one turned and came back and disappeared for a minute. All of a sudden, it hit, Carla Machajewski of Apache Junction at the base of mountains told reporters.
Many years ago, I was a Tempean (and a Sun Devil). My buddy and I spent a fair amount of time gallivanting around the East Valley.
Once we were passengers on a four-wheeler expedition on the road up near the top of Four Peaks when we came across these two Gabby Hayes-like prospectors with an old Land Rover, which had slid off the road into a couple of trees. Thank God for the trees!
While one of the geezers worked to get the diesel motor started with a can of ether, our driver Tom ran a cable from the winch on the front of the Bronco and got them pulled back onto the road.
Sun Devil myself. Manzi Hall was where my gal pals stayed.
I was over in Sin City.
This was back when former Sen. Hayden was still coming in to his office in the Library.
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