Perris Crash Anniversary

[Caroline Copus]

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the twin otter crash in Perris, California.  Please take a moment and remember the 16 of the 22 lives that were innocently taken away from us.

Flying to Eternity......
 James Layne (Airmoves), Rowland Guilford, Chris Harrel, Geoffrey Anderson, Scott Border, Anthony Cabrera, Jacquelyn Downs, Larry Fatino, John Mitchell, Christophe Ribert, Dwight Sanders, Dave Clarke, Rolando Dajay, Ray Herder, John Henderson, Jacobus Strating
 

But Still with us....
Dan Broksky-Chenfeld, Troy Widgery, Thomas Falzone, Wayne Flemington, Jos Arkes, Gerard Fidom
 
 
 

With love,

Caroline Layne-Copus
D-14528

"...and once you have tasted flight,
                                               you will walk the earth with your
                                       eyes turned skyward, for there you have been
                               and there you will long to return..."         -- Leonardo da Vinci
 

[James E. DePena]

I've only been in the sport 2 years, so I was curious as to what happened.   If someone knows of a web page with the true story please post it.  

 

Thank You,

 

Exit Fast, Fly Smoothly, Dock Lightly, And Smile.

Blue Skies

James E. DePena 

D-20130

bon...@digital.net

 

[Peter Lucas]

In article <353DF580...@ix.netcom.com>, Caroline Copus
<Acc...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

**Today marks the sixth anniversary of the twin otter crash in Perris,
**California. Please take a moment and remember the 16 of the 22 lives
**that were innocently taken away from us.
**
**Flying to Eternity......
** James Layne (Airmoves), Rowland Guilford, Chris Harrel, Geoffrey
**Anderson, Scott Border, Anthony Cabrera, Jacquelyn Downs, Larry Fatino,
**John Mitchell, Christophe Ribert, Dwight Sanders, Dave Clarke, Rolando
**Dajay, Ray Herder, John Henderson, Jacobus Strating
**
**
**But Still with us....
**Dan Broksky-Chenfeld, Troy Widgery, Thomas Falzone, Wayne Flemington,
**Jos Arkes, Gerard Fidom

**With love,
**
**Caroline Layne-Copus
**D-14528

Today (22Apr) I requested a song to be played on our local radio station.
Rod Stewarts "Forever Young".

I also say a little prayer for the people that were there just after the Otter
went down, trying to find their friends, or anybody, alive, in amongst the
carnage.

Go and give Mick the Pommy Packer a hug for me and tell him I'll be back soon
:-)

Peter

Peter Lucas We can lift ourselves out of ignorance,
Brisbane we can find ourselves as creatures of
Australia excellence and intelligence and skill.
We can be free.
We can learn to fly.

[Angelmoon]

Peter Lucas <sky...@earthling.net> wrote in article
<6hmhil$sf...@iccu9.ipswich.gil.com.au>...

Peter,

Let us know when you expect to be this way. Would love to get together.
:)
--
Angelmoon
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect"
-Leonardo da Vinci

[Avi8oR4u]

God Bless

[Peter Lucas]

In article <01bd6e9f$2ae5ca80$2bbffdd0@reserve>, "Angelmoon" <computer...@mailexite.com> wrote:

**| Go and give Mick the Pommy Packer a hug for me and tell him I'll be back
**soon
**| :-)
**|
**| Peter
**|
**| Peter Lucas We can lift ourselves out of ignorance,
**| Brisbane we can find ourselves as creatures of
**| Australia excellence and intelligence and skill.
**| We can be free.
**| We can learn to fly.
**|
**Peter,
**
**Let us know when you expect to be this way. Would love to get together.
**:)
**--
**Angelmoon

No worries :-)

[unilatera...@gmail.com]

Okay, so, John Mitchell is my uncle. He used to infrequently visit us in the area east of Seattle and would always take us to that little air field in Issaquah and jump for us. That air field has been gone for maybe 15 years now, replaced by a movie theater and some stores. This would have been in the 1981-1985 range I guess. He had this trick.. where he would spin in a certain way and it looked like he fell into his parachute and it would always give his family a heart attack. Some kind of optical illusion. We were all there, I think Grandpa (his father) was still alive then, and at least two of his sisters, and my cousins.... maybe 5 or 6 of us kids. Good times. Then after jumping once or twice, the kids would be herded into the back of a truck, and he would take us all out to pizza and disappear for a few years again. We weren't a close family at all. I don't blame him for keeping his distance ;)

But I have a question: There is some folklore in our family that goes as following, as my mother tells it: "I went to the funeral in Perris and I met this guy named Pat and he said 'your brother taught me to parachute, he was a great guy, great instructor... blah blah blah'. Then I was back at work the following week and there was this magazine on a desk, and I screamed 'Oh my Goodness (She would really say that), I met Patrick Swayze at Johny's funeral!!! and I didn't even know it! He said his name was Pat!".

So I'm just asking. Please proof my family folklore here. Was Patrick swayze at the funeral?

I was not at the funeral. But I saw the VHS tape video that was made for the funeral. And I remember the song "forever young". I have no idea what happened to the video. Did anyone preserve it? I would be happy to pay for shipping and a tip if someone could provide that video to me in somekind of digital format.

Thank you.
Not so Anonymous (Anyone who knows my family at all knows exactly who is writing this).





On Wednesday, April 22, 1998 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Caroline Copus wrote:
> Today marks the sixth anniversary of the twin otter crash in Perris, California. 
> Please take a moment and remember the 16 of the 22 lives that were innocently
> taken away from us.
>
>
> Flying to Eternity......

>
>  James Layne (Airmoves), Rowland Guilford, Chris Harrel,

> Geoffrey Anderson, Scott Border, Anthony Cabrera, Jacquelyn Downs, Larry
> Fatino, John Mitchell, Christophe Ribert, Dwight Sanders, Dave Clarke,
> Rolando Dajay, Ray Herder, John Henderson, Jacobus Strating
>
>  
>
>
> But Still with us....
>

> Dan Broksky-Chenfeld, Troy Widgery, Thomas Falzone, Wayne Flemington,

[Uni Lateral]

Please read the post above, sorry for the double post. But if I post now, I should be automatically subscribed. I joined the group.

To the original poster who asked about it: My understanding is the wrong fuel was put in the plane, they did notice this mistake, the fuel was then removed and the correct fuel was put in. They started up the engines and it was running just fine. Then as it took off, just over the fence at the end of the airfield the bad gas (presumably in the fuel line or whatever which was not 100% removed) got in the engine, the engines stalled and it went down right over the fence and broke apart.

I remember there was a TV show about this and we watched it. Some kind of special on TV, but today I couldn't tell you what program it was or how to find it.

[gdunn]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 05:15:27 -0800, Uni Lateral wrote:

> ... My understanding is the wrong fuel was put in the plane, they did notice this

> mistake, the fuel was then removed and the correct fuel was put in. They started
> up the engines and it was running just fine. Then as it took off, just over the
> fence at the end of the airfield the bad gas (presumably in the fuel line or
> whatever which was not 100% removed) got in the engine, the engines stalled and
>it went down right over the fence and broke apart.
>

> I remember there was a TV show about this and we watched it. ...

Teevee is garbage. Read the facts:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001211X14468

N141PV was improperly fueled, and no contaminated fuel was removed prior to engine start.
The ground crew fucked up, and you can't change this with your revisionist history.

[gdunn]

To be fair, the pilot fucked up too. When the right engine quit due to fuel
contamination, he feathered the left engine propeller instead.

[Uni Lateral]

Thanks for the post to the accident report.

[Uni Lateral]

Anyone know if Patrick Swayze was at the funeral?

[Uni Lateral]

Well I don't want to check her constantly, if anyone figures out about Patric please email me at halm...@yahoo.com or halm...@nym.hush.com
Thanks