One Dead in Small Plane Crash Near Pittsburgh

"user314" (user314) 04/12/2017 at 15:50 • Filed to: planelopnik, general aviation, pittsburgh

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A small plane (a Cessna, maybe?) has !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! near the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , just east of Pittsburgh, PA. The plane crashed some 250 feet into the woods surrounding the airport around 2:30pm today. One causualty has been reported, but no name has been released as of yet. The make and owner of the plane are also unknown as the location and state of the wreckage make identification difficult.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/12/2017 at 15:54

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RIP.

For Sweden > user314 04/12/2017 at 16:03

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Any word on if it was takeoff or landing?

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/12/2017 at 16:04

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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air… .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

user314 > For Sweden 04/12/2017 at 16:05

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Nothing yet; I’ll have to check again during the 5 o’clock news.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/12/2017 at 16:22

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John Gillespie Magee, Jr was 19 years old when he died in a midair collision over England in 1941 while piloting a Spitfire.

Chris Clarke > For Sweden 04/12/2017 at 16:56

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Looks like takeoff. Performing touch and goes on a test flight of a recently restored Howard owned by the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics.

http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/12187734-74/plane-reported-down-at-rostraver-airport

For Sweden > Chris Clarke 04/12/2017 at 16:58

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We need robotic pilots, but just for the first flight after an engine overhaul.

Chris Clarke > user314 04/12/2017 at 17:04

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Looks to have been this vintage Howard DGA-15.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=4476N

Chris Clarke > For Sweden 04/12/2017 at 17:05

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Hold the controls Otto, I need to Oppo.

user314 > Chris Clarke 04/12/2017 at 17:19

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Here’s the page on PIA’s site about the airplane.