“the single-engine plane took off from the Ankeny Regional Airport at about 10 p.m. and crashed at about 11 p.m., about a mile north of the runway in Dubuque.”
A mile north an hour later? Wonder what he was doing....
He was waved off on his first attempt. The elevation at the departing airport is approx. 400 ft. lower than at the Dubuque field. I won’t speculate, the FAA investigation will figure out what happened. Tragic loss for his family, friends and colleagues.
Read it again. That’s like Demoines to Dubuque.
“the single-engine plane took off from the Ankeny Regional Airport at about 10 p.m. and crashed at about 11 p.m., about a mile north of the runway in Dubuque.”
A mile north an hour later? Wonder what he was doing....
Ankeny and Dubuque are two differnt airports (presumably about an hour away from each other).
150 miles apart.