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cloudcraft(at)aol.com
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: AC500B Crash, Burns, OR

Twin Commanders,

 

 An Aero Commander 500B crashed near Burns, Oregon, while en route from Redding, CA (KRDD) to Montana.

 

 The news article I read is listed here:

 

 http://www.ktvz.com/news/24607311/detail.html

 

 I did some very quick and dirty research because the news report was full of typical inaccuracies and I wrote the following comment for the article but did not post it because I would have had to register on their web site ... and I'm already registered on too many web sites.

 

 So, for you gentlemen:

 

 There are several inaccuracies in this report, which is to be expected from the general news media.  Aero Commanders do not have a history of wing failures.  There are a few instances of tail failure on the turbine powered models and there is a recurring inspection required on some models of Twin Commanders for wing spar corrosion.  The model 500B is exempt from this inspection requirement.  A search of FAA Airman's Records shows two pilots with the name of the deceased pilot, (perhaps father and son) living in Bonsall, California.  Neither are instrument rated; only one is listed as having a multi-engine rating.  If there were clouds in the area as reported by the witness, ("...Witnesses said the plane, a 1962 Aero Commander Model 500-B, could be  heard coming out of the clouds, straight for the ground...”)  an instrument rating to be in those clouds would have been required.  There is no record of an Instrument Flight Plan in the ATC system for an Twin Commander 500B on Wednesday between Redding, CA (KRDD)  and Montana, nor anywhere else.

 

 Keith S. Gordon

 Wing Commander Gordon

  

     

  

    Life is not simple anywhere. Probably less so elsewhere.

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yourtcfg(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:15 am Post subject: AC500B Crash, Burns, OR

Thanks Keith so much.  I have not had a subscription to ANY news paper for years.  Every time they report ANYTHING about a subject I am intimate with, they get it WRONG.  Usually WAY WRONG.  That means that all of the other information they print is also wrong, we just don't know the subject matter well enough to know what the errors are.  It is therefor a waste of time to read the paper.  Thanks for your correction.  Hope you can make it to Hillsboro!!  jb 

 

   

 

 

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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: AC500B Crash, Burns, OR

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		  Every time they report ANYTHING about a subject I am intimate with, they get it WRONG.  Usually WAY WRONG. 	
    Capt. JimBob, 

 Until one is the subject (target) of a news article, or, as you say, it's about a subject you're intimately familiar with, one can never appreciate how bad the vast majority of news reporting is.   Keep that in mind when you read / watch / hear news of any kind.

 

 I may have seemed harsh in my assessment of the the crash; I don't hold any anger towards the people who died in this crash. I can only begin to imagine what they felt when they came out the bottom of a cloud close to the ground and realized their lives were over.  Was it terror?  Peace?  We'll never know.  I also know the anguish their family and friends are experiencing now.

 

 My reaction was to the reporting and the sense of drama the reporter was trying to create with misplaced facts.  OK. I am being protective of the aircraft line. I admit that.

 

 As for Hillsboro, it will be a last minute go / no go decision for me due to my work "schedule" -- which is a word that can't be used in a sentence describing corporate aviation.

 

 Best to all,

 

 Keith S. Gordon

 Wing Commander Gordon

  

     

  

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