On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:38:43 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:


Best doctor-pilot story I've heard in a while, told to me at a fly-in in
July, by a guy based at the field where it supposedly happened:
...A few hours later, Dr. Anon and his "companion" (daughter???

Similar, but much sadder story: I was working a midshift one winter
night. About 0400 (lcl) we vectored a Bonanza (out of BNA, if I recall
correctly) for the ILS at PIA, turned him over to the CTAF (PIA TWR
closed on mids), and never heard from him again.

After about a half hour alerted watch desk, who contacted various
people on a hierarchy list, finally ISP found the wreckage a mile
short of the runway, all iced up. Two bodies, pilot and much younger,
unrelated female.

The really sad part was that part of the phone call hierarchy was to
the home of the registered A/C owner to see if he had arrived and
failed to call in. The owner's wife answered the (by now) 0600 phone
call. I would not have wanted to be involved in that conversation.

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