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cole_gary(at)sbcglobal.ne
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: HR II crash |
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I just read that a HR II from Bakersfield crashed yesterday killing the sole pilot. Anyone know more?
Gary HR II fuselage in process
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T.gummo(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: HR II crash |
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Found this on a local newspaper.
Tom Gummo
Apple Valley, CA
Harmon Rocket-II
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Small plane crashes, killing at least one BY ERIN WALDNER, Californian staff writer
e-mail: ewaldner(at)bakersfield.com | Saturday, Mar 3 2007 10:30 PM
Last Updated: Saturday, Mar 3 2007 10:35 PM
A 54-year-old Bakersfield man died when a small kit plane crashed near Arvin Saturday morning.
Jasbir Singh Mallian, the pilot, died at the scene, according to a Kern County coroner's office news release.
Witnesses heard the plane go down hard and fast at 9:45 a.m. southeast of Bakersfield in a vineyard just northwest of Comanche Drive and Sunset Boulevard, Kern County Sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Smithson said at the crash site.
The plane was registered to Mallian. No one answered the door at the Bakersfield address to which the plane is registered.
The plane -- a home-built type of aircraft called a Harmon Rocket II that the FAA classifies as experimental -- could carry two people. But officials believe only the pilot was aboard, said Mike Fergus, a spokesman for Federal Aviation Administration.
Home-built aircraft such as the Harmon are assembled from kits that are certified by the FAA, Fergus said. The plane was certified to be flown, he said.
The NTSB is investigating the cause of Saturday's accident with help from the FAA. Authorities also are investigating where the airplane took off and was going.
The Sheriff's Department and firefighters responded to the crash, but rescuers could not immediately make out the plane's tail number, because the plane was "just a pile," Smithson said.
Jenio Tapia lives with his family in one of five houses that line a dirt road near the crash site.
Tapia said he was at baseball tryouts with his two sons when he got a call from his wife who told him "don't get scared if someone says there's a lot of cops and ambulances and stuff."
She told him something happened in one of the neighboring fields but that their family was fine.
Tapia added she said a prayer.
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