Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny but smoggy skies one morning last week signaled the worst air tragedy in U.S. aviation history. At least 150 people died, the first fatalities on PSA's record. They included all 135 aboard the PSA airliner, the two occupants of a tiny 2,100-lb. Cessna 172 that had collided with it, and at least 13 residents struck by aircraft debris or engulfed by the flames that destroyed ten houses...
While PSA 182 was on the ground in Los Angeles, Martin Kazy Jr., 32, a flight instructor with 5,000 hours of experience, got into a yellow-striped Cessna 172 owned by Gibbs Flite Center at Montgomery Field, eleven miles northeast of Lindbergh Field. Kazy, who had moved to California last year from Youngstown, Ohio, had just obtained a new job flying charter aircraft throughout the West and had asked his fiancéee, Jennifer Lefler, 25, also a flyer, to travel with him as copilot. One of his last scheduled assignments as an instructor was last week...
...opposite direction (designated Runway 27, short for 270°). For the practice run, Boswell put on special goggles, obstructing his view of the sky but permitting him to see his lighted instrument panel. Kazy had full visibility and sat at dual controls so he could take over the Cessna at any sign of danger...
...Cessna at 8:55 a.m., Boswell was cleared to make his instrument approach on Runway 9. He did so, then pulled up instead of landing, just as planned. At 8:58, the Cessna asked the Miramar center, which had taken over control of the small plane, for permission to circle for a second, similar practice pass. Permission was granted. The. Cessna was to head east-northeast (70°) for about ten miles and climb to 3,500 ft. before circling west. The Cessna pilots followed instructions, heading directly into the glare of the morning...
...time in Nairobi, mired in administrative work at the museum. But he still longs to be out in the field and at every opportunity loads his second wife, the former Meave Epps (his first marriage ended in divorce), and their two small children into his four-seat Cessna and flies out for a short stay at Koobi Fora...