[at-l] Airplane Crash in SNP

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In a message dated 08/27/02 7:18:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rickboudrie@hotmail.com writes:


> Just saw this in last Thursdays NPS Morning Report in case anyone who hikes
> in the area is interested:
>
> Ju02-410 - Shenandoah NP (VA) - Search for Missing Aircraft
>
> On the evening of August 19th, park dispatch received a call from the
> AirForce Rescue Coordination Center reporting that the wreckage of a
> missingC essna 172 with one person on board had been spotted about a mile
> and a half east of Swift Run and a mile north of Route 33. A ground search
> ensured that involved about 65 people from the park, Appalachian Search and
> Rescue Conference, CAP, Greene County Sheriff's Office, Greene County
> Rescue
> Squad, and Harrisonburg Rescue Squad. The aircraft was found by rangers on
> Saddleback Mountain a third of a mile north of the Appalachian Trail just
> outside the park at 1:15 a.m. the next morning. The pilot did not survive.
> A
> joint investigation by NTSB, FAA and Virginia State Police is underway.
> [Ginny Rousseau, CR, SHEN]
>

Yikes.....

My HATT section this weekend.

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