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Piper Crashes Near Summerville


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Contact photographer Erick Stamm

What: Piper PA-23-250 Aztec F en route to Fort Pierce, Florida
Where: Near the Summerville airport, not far from the S.C. coast
When: 21-OCT-2009 6:45 am
Who: 4 on board; 4 fatalities
Why: The plane took off and then made an inexplicable U turn, and crashed in a wooded area near the Summerville airport and burned. Those on board included:
pilot Peter Radding of North Charleston;
passenger James Randolph Hargenradar of Summerville; passenger Edwin Steeble of Summerville
passenger Dallas Carter of Laurel, Del.

Witnesses say the engine didn’t sound right; and that they heard two explosions after the plane impacted the ground.
The individuals on board were en route to attend a ham radio competition in the Bahamas.

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