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Tara Field Georgia: Flight Crashes on National Aerotech Maintenance Flight


What: Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100
Where: SW of Clayton County Airport-Tara Field, GA
When: 08 MAR 2011
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: The Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing flight piloted by 37-year-old Bryan Hedrick crashed at 11:45 am on March 8, 2011 on a post maintenance flight run. The maintenance was done by National Aerotech Aviation, and the maintenance flight was headed toward Tara Field when the plane went down for an unknown reason, and landed upside down, with the tail leaning on a tree, the right wing off and twisted, and the left wing folded back.

Both the pilot and passenger Oriel Roberts died in the crash.


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Georgia Emergency Landing and Rescue

What: Cessna en route from New Jersey to Saint Simon’s Island.
Where: near Wassaw Island, in the marsh east of Skidaway Island.
When: Saturday morning
Who: pilot Eugenia Singer and her dog
Why: The engine surged and then lost power. Air traffic control directed her to marshland, where she landed submerged.

On the Coast Guard Air Station Savannah rescue helicopter was flight mechanic Adam Morehouse who helped hoist Singer and her dog to safety in a basket.

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