Flying Accident near Lake Tahoe
Mark Stockton
community service and post it here as well. Will someone please forward to
MGASA and SARFLY.
> To ALL:
>
> Some of you may remember my ex-wife. She had started taking flying
> lessons about the time our divorce started (2004) and she got her
> license shortly before our divorce was final, later the next year after
> the horse incident. Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in
> the aircraft she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency
> landing in near Lake Tahoe because of bad weather. Some could call it a
> crash; an accident at the least. Our kids were with in Reno this
> weekend.
>
> National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary
> determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and Ellen
> was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR
> (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR
> (visual flight rating) rating.
>
> The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on
> board. No one on the ground was injured.
>
> Photographs below were taken at the scene showing the extent of damage
> to
> her aircraft.
>
> http://www.spieltek.com/NTSBcrashpicture.htm
>
> She was very lucky.
>
> Thanks for your concern.
>
> Chris
Regards
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