Posted on 06/11/2003 11:27:28 AM PDT by nyconse
A couple from Marina del Rey were among the five people who died Friday when a light plane crashed into an apartment building in the Fairfax district, relatives said Monday.
Tony Vinatieri, 42, and Bonnie Vinatieri, 41, had joined the flight to Sun Valley, Idaho, because the pilot, Jeffrey T. Siegel, was a contractor who wanted to show them houses he had built there, John Vinatieri of Napa said.
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JEFFREY THOMAS SIEGEL
Street 2837 GRANVILLE AVE
City LOS ANGELES State CALIFORNIA
County LOS ANGELES Zip Code 90064-3605
Country UNITED STATES
Medical
Medical Class : Third Medical Date: 08/2001
Certificates
DOI : 07/03/1996
Certificate: PRIVATE PILOT
Rating(s):
PRIVATE PILOT AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
It's possible that he got the rating more recently and the database hasn't been updated. Most insurers wouldn't write a Bonanza owner that didn't have an instrument rating.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
ReligionOfMassDestruction will be along any time now to theorize that the plane was filled with Arabs and the US Government killed these people and placed their bodies in the building as part of the plan to cover up Muslim terrorism in the US.
Awww. What a damned shame. It's not only tragic, it's downright cruel to risk others' lives. VFR into IMC, hundreds of lives a year, the sheer repetitive stupidity of it angers me. Irresponsibility.
For every prrang where the pilots have no chance, there's hundreds of these where it was what the pilots did or failed to do that made the difference. This is one case where I can't hold to my preferred standard of de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Thanks for informing me, anyway. Sigh.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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