Doug Bowman | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Sun, 24 May 2009 06:02:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Two In One Day https://airflightdisaster.com/two-in-one-day/ Sat, 23 May 2009 04:56:59 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=3962 What: experimental plane Where: Healdsburg Municipal Airport When: Thursday, May 21 10:58 a.m. Who: Pilot Why: A quartering wind caused the pilot to veer off the runway and into the Funsten Ranch vineyard grape vines. Plane owner/pilot was not injured when his homebuilt crashed. Then…a mere six hours later…same place… What: low-wing, single-engine Mooney Where:...

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Where: Healdsburg Municipal Airport
When: Thursday, May 21 10:58 a.m.
Who: Pilot
Why: A quartering wind caused the pilot to veer off the runway and into the Funsten Ranch vineyard grape vines. Plane owner/pilot was not injured when his homebuilt crashed.

Then…a mere six hours later…same place…

What: low-wing, single-engine Mooney
Where: Healdsburg Municipal Airport
When: 4:55 p.m
Who: pilot
Why: Right after take-off, the Mooney went to partial power, passed a home and powerlines, then skidded on its belly into the vineyard where this Mooney also crash-landed on grapevines by the Mazzocco Winery

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