Missing King Air 200?
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Missing King Air 200?
Did anyone else just watch the news on Global? All I caught was something about a missing King Air 200... no location, no company name. Any info would be appreciated
From News 1130:
A massive search is underway this hour for two pilots aboard a small plane that is supposed to have landed in Smithers by now. The search area stretches all the way from Vancouver to Smithers. Gerry Pash with the Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre says there are military planes and helicopters involved in the air search. As well, a coast guard boat is searching Jervis Inlet as that is below a portion of the flight. Pash says the helicopters are looking at a glacier area half way between the two cities. The plane took off from Vancouver at 8:30 this morning and was supposed to land in Smithers a couple hours later but never made it. Pash says the pilots are experienced and it doesn't look like the weather has played a factor in the disappearance. The plane is equipped with an electronic locator transmitter but they have no signal.
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I just checked with Vancouver newspapers on the net and there is nothing on a missing King Air. Has anyone heard anything new? It is now 9:20 PM in YYC.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050728 ... sing_plane
thats a link to a news story about the search - has a little more info
thats a link to a news story about the search - has a little more info
Everyone there is on edge, I know both pilots and see them almost everyday. Very cool guys and very experianced.
They were going to YYD but never showed. Most of the day YYD and I were trying to track them down, not a word peep nothing, very weird.
I pray they are ok, and only had to land as a precaution. Radio signals in that part of the world dont go very far, and if they landing as a precaution, they my not have thought to just switch on the ELT manually.
This industry is dark and cold alone with out loosing buddys.
I ask that you all think of them and pray.
They were going to YYD but never showed. Most of the day YYD and I were trying to track them down, not a word peep nothing, very weird.
I pray they are ok, and only had to land as a precaution. Radio signals in that part of the world dont go very far, and if they landing as a precaution, they my not have thought to just switch on the ELT manually.
This industry is dark and cold alone with out loosing buddys.
I ask that you all think of them and pray.
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Two of our bretheren are in trouble, and I pray that by some miracle they are ok and that the emergency personnel will find them as quickly as possible.
My thoughts also go out to the staff at NT Air that are dealing with this situation.
My thoughts also go out to the staff at NT Air that are dealing with this situation.
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Kick the tires and light the fires...
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They are not dead until they are found dead. The captain is one of my best friends. Until i hear i don't believe it. I don't care what everyone says. He is missing until i hear otherwise, PERIOD ! I love him like my brother.
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Terrible, terrible.. hang tight guys..
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Perhaps my story will give some optimism to the terrible situation.
I used to fly in the NWT. A fellow pilot had just been upgraded from the ramp to the 206 on floats. On his first trip he was flying home in loose formation with a senior pilot in another 206. The two of them entered some low cloud and the last thing the senior pilot heard over the radio was, "I'm really busy I can't talk right now." Then there was awful radio silence. The pilot never returned to base that night. We sent planes up to look for him and his passengers and found nothing. We got no ELT. We figured they had hit a lake and went in hard. The boss, who had been around for 40 years and had many recovery missions under his belt told everyone that this was about the worst situation he'd seen and that most certainly, the pilot and passenger were dead, and we should brace ourselves for bad news. Nobody slept that night. In the morning we were listening to the radio about the missing aircraft, and I went to the post office to get my mail. When I returned to the car my fiance told me that they had found him and he was alright. I've never been so relieved. When I saw him that day, I ran up to him and gave him a big hug. He had no idea we were worried. Here's what happend: The pilot flew into bad weather and went on instruments. He needed to concentrate and climbed above the fog and tried to get around it. He soon realized he was short on fuel and decided to put down on a lake way off course. He didn't want to worry anyone so he didn't turn on his ELT. Him and the pax were sitting on some nice beach eating eft over pizza and haveing a camp fire. The real crappy thing about the whole thing was that all the floatplanes had sat phones, but the boss was going out somewhere and decided to take the sat phone out of the plane.
Never give uo hope. Our prayers are with the pilots, families and NT Air guys. Aviation sure seems small when friends go down.
I used to fly in the NWT. A fellow pilot had just been upgraded from the ramp to the 206 on floats. On his first trip he was flying home in loose formation with a senior pilot in another 206. The two of them entered some low cloud and the last thing the senior pilot heard over the radio was, "I'm really busy I can't talk right now." Then there was awful radio silence. The pilot never returned to base that night. We sent planes up to look for him and his passengers and found nothing. We got no ELT. We figured they had hit a lake and went in hard. The boss, who had been around for 40 years and had many recovery missions under his belt told everyone that this was about the worst situation he'd seen and that most certainly, the pilot and passenger were dead, and we should brace ourselves for bad news. Nobody slept that night. In the morning we were listening to the radio about the missing aircraft, and I went to the post office to get my mail. When I returned to the car my fiance told me that they had found him and he was alright. I've never been so relieved. When I saw him that day, I ran up to him and gave him a big hug. He had no idea we were worried. Here's what happend: The pilot flew into bad weather and went on instruments. He needed to concentrate and climbed above the fog and tried to get around it. He soon realized he was short on fuel and decided to put down on a lake way off course. He didn't want to worry anyone so he didn't turn on his ELT. Him and the pax were sitting on some nice beach eating eft over pizza and haveing a camp fire. The real crappy thing about the whole thing was that all the floatplanes had sat phones, but the boss was going out somewhere and decided to take the sat phone out of the plane.
Never give uo hope. Our prayers are with the pilots, families and NT Air guys. Aviation sure seems small when friends go down.
