Globe Crashes in Calaveras County

What: single-engine Globe Swift (GC-1A) manufactured in 1946 in Texas en route from Rancho Murieta airport to Rancho Murieta airport
Where: on the exposed dry lake bottom of Camanche Reservoir, Calaveras County
When: Thursday.
Who: Walter Guy Boeck, 68, of Rancho Murietta
Why: The flight plan was to fly with another plane for a couple of hours and return to the airport. The other pilot reported seeing Boeck’s plane flying erratically and Boeck slumped unconscious over the controls and tracked him until he was low on fuel. The search for the missing craft began about 5 p.m. Thursday after eyewitnesses reported the aircraft going down over Lake Comanche . 9:30 a.m. Airborne searchers discovered the wreckage. Boeck’s body was discovered about 10:00 a m.

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