UAPilot7 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 338 posts, RR: 1 Posted (13 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 621 times:
I was just wahing NBC when they said there was a plane crash in Florida (love hoe specific the are). 4 are belived dead. One plane was cleared to land, the other was holding. Sounds like it was an express carrier. Anyone know the destinations and airlines? There was a fire. The NTSB is heading there now.
Lotflyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (13 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 460 times:
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) _ Two small planes collided on a runway at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Thursday, killing four people in a fiery explosion, officials said.
The single-engine planes each carried two people, said Pat Cariseo, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington.
A controller had cleared one of the planes for takeoff from one of the airport's two runways, Cariseo said. At the same time, the other plane requested permission to hold on the same runway, a normal procedure before taking off. Controllers granted the request.
What happened next is not immediately clear, Cariseo said. The planes, a Cessna 152 and a Cessna 172, collided at 10:37 a.m., airport spokesman Jim Naiman said.
"There was a big fire, so everyone went out there," said Rosalie Radtke, a secretary for Sarasota Avionics, located about a quarter-mile away. "All the guys saw was a big ball of fire."
The airport, about 50 miles south of Tampa, handles general aviation, domestic jet service and international charter flights. The airport handles 1.5 million passengers a year. Miami International Airport, by comparison, has about 34 million passengers a year.
Officials closed one runway after the crash, Naiman said.
Cariseo said NTSB investigators from Miami and Washington were en route to the crash site.
This was the second accident at the airport in 24 hours. A single-engine aircraft had trouble with its landing gear and belly landed at the airport Wednesday. There were no injuries in that incident.
FirstClass! From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (13 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 420 times:
No express carriers, just gen. aviation aircraft.
I live in Ft. Lauderdale and got news an hour
after the accident. It looks like a bunch of metal
covered in foam.
747-600X From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2759 posts, RR: 16 Reply 3, posted (13 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 391 times:
My sister goes to college in St. Petersburg and E-Mailed me that 'someone flew into someone else again', but she's got about as much interest in aviation as those airplanes now do. This sucks. UAPilot7's title was a good one, I think I'll walk next time.
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