HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-19-2017 Item 15, FloresG. R. Flores
P.O. Box 14016
San Luis Obispo
California
93406
September 10,2016
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo
California
COUNCIL MEETING: U Labzo L'7
ITEM NO,:
City Council
City Hall
To the San Luis Obispo City Council,
T regards to: 9PEC/ER/1518-2015,Special Focus Area SP -4, Avila Ranch
The developer, of the proposed Avila Ranch project, seams to believe destroy-
ing American farmland, is acceptable behavior in this day and age. This de-
struction, pushing America to the unsafe postion of - relying on other coun-
tries, to feed Americans.
This developer, also seems to believe it is acceptable, to jeopardize people's
safety by building a housing sub -division. Essentially at the end of a runway
in which, commercial jets and full-size military transport planes, are taking
off from. Plus, this developer believes, that people would be willing to pay
money for a house. Which would have questionable safety aLid quality of life
issues; due to, proximity to the airport. One would think, these two issues -
safety, quality of life - the " City of San Luis Obispo ", would have stopped
this proposed project, long ago. Given the well documented, worldwide, decades
old precedent of citys being sued - for allowing construction in close prox-
imiity to an airport,
San Luis Obispo used to be proud of its clear and smogfree skyline -- " Coque up
for air, San Luis Obispo ". After several decades of the " City of San Luis
Obispo ", signing off on, any and all development. San Luis Obispo now has a
thick layer of smog; hanging over the city, The most visible and dramatic
view, Highway One coming from Pforro Bay. The Avila Ranch developer, is pro-
posing essentially, to build another city on the outskirts of San Luis Obispo.
Traffic and smog, will be the two biggest negatives, generated by this pro-
posed project; following faxmland destruction, The destruction of Avila Ranch
will generate nonstop traffic and smog . -from construction, -to occupation, to
maintenance. Every need - education, employment, shopping - will require ar,
automobile trip. Adding to San Luis Obispo's worsening traffic mess. Thirty
years ago, our " Old Town ", home was on a quiet residential street. This
street, is now a high speed cross-town conduit, for dangerous/scofflaw drivers.
That the San Luis Obispo Police Department, refuse to rein in. This dangerous
situation, is only going to become worse, with the destruction of Avila Ranch,
Dalidio Ranch, and on going destruction of farmland in the Tank Farm Road and
Orcutt Road Area.
C . for your time,
rT. R. FLores
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2 0 I 5
SAN LUIS OBISPO
Council:
land use
0
ovemde
to stand
SLO leaders decline to revisit
vote allowing home-building
near the county. airport
BY CYNTHIA LAMBFRT
dambert@thetnbunenews.com
The San Luis Obispo City Council won't
reconsider a vote taken last year to override
a ruling by the cotmty Airport bind Use
Commission that would have limited devel-
opment near the local airport.
In March, a Caltrans deputy attorney
asked the council to reassess "the improp-
er overrule of the land use commission and
the rescinding of its airport land use com-
patibility phut:'
In a letter to Caltrans mailed Friday, City
Attorney Christine Diem wrote the time
period had long passed for the council to
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reconsider any of its actions
on the city's updated Gener-
al Plan - its blueprint for
growth — which will shape
development for the next
20 years.
Council members were
not interested in further dis,
cussing their past actions on
the city's land use and cir-
culation element (LUCE),
she added.
The council voted 41 in
December to override the
airport commission's ruling
that the city's updated Gen-
eral Plan is inconsistent with
its own airport land use plan
— which, based on noise
and safety concerns, limits
development near the San
Luis Obispo County Region-
al Airport.
The. city hired an expert
in airport planning who con-
cluded that the commis-
sion's safety zones were
larger than necessary and
that the city's long-term de-
velopment plans meet state
airport safety guidelines.
"To be clear, the city's,
adopted LUCE update and
the related zoning regula-
tions neither propose nor al-
Iow any incompatible land
uses near San Luis Obispo
County Regional Airport,"
Dietrick wrote.
Caltrans officials were not
available Monday for com-
ment on the city's response.
The General Plan envi-
sions new developments in
the southern section of the
city where the airport is lo-
cated. They include the
131 -acre San Luis Ranch
planned for the former
Dalidio property on Madon-
na Road and the 150 -acre
Avila Ranch on the north
side of Buckley Road.
The Airport Land Use
Commission will get a
chance to weigh in on the
specific projects. Before the
developments can be ap-
proved by the City Council,
the plans will be referred to
the commission for consid-
eration of whether they're
consistent with the com-
mission's airport land use
plan.
The Caltrans letter states
that construction of new
homes in the areas sur-
rounding the airport's safety
zones will create new noise
and safety problems for res-
idents and the airport.
As an example, Caltrans
Deputy Attorney Raiyn Bain
pointed to the Santa Monica
Municipal Airport, which
may be closed because of
complaints about noise,
safety and pollution from
residents, some of whom
live as close as 300 feet from
the runway.
But Dietrick said San Luis
Obispo is in a very different
situation: The council is sup-
portive of the airport, and
the San Luis Ranch and Avi-
la Ranch developments have
directions to reserve 50 per-
cent of -each area as open
space.
The preliminary specific
plan for San Luis Ranch
shows future homes situat-
ed
ituated nearly two'miles from the
end of the airport's primary
runway, she added. The
Avila Ranch preliminary
plan shows homes almost a
mile from the end of the mi-
nor [-Wl vary
`"The city has demonstrat-
ed an absolute attention and
commitment to the safety
and well-being of the citi-
zens of San Luis Obispo and
the long-term economic vi-
tality of the airport," Diet -
rick wrote.
Reach -Cynthia Lambert
at 781-7929. Stay updated
by}ollowing @CLambert
SLO on Twitter.
Has anyone spent a day at Avila Ranch, with a decibel meter – starting at
6:30 a.m., when the first commercial jets fly out. From my family's vantage
point in.'' Old Town ", the airport/airplane noise has become real annoying.
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Small plane lands on
15
interstate in Mississippi
Associated Press
PASCAGOULA, MISS.
The pilot of a single-
engine airplane made an
emergency landing on
Interstate 10 in south
Mississippi's Jackson
County on Monday, safely
bringing the plane down
and guiding it off the
highway as traffic behind
him slowed to make room.
It happened around
12:30 p.m. near Biloxi..
The pilot, Rodney
McKnight Jr., 24, of Au-
burn, Ala., told Gulf Coast
news outlets that he lost
power at 3,500 feet as
he was approaching the
Gulfport -Biloxi airport. He
and a friend had left Au-
burn, planning to spend
Memorial Day in Gulfport.
He said he first turned
the plane back toward
Alabama, but decided he
didn't have the alti-Lude to
glide back to Mobile.
He informed air traffic
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015
Four killed as plane
crashes, on highway
DORAVILLE, Ga. —A
small passenger air-
plane dropped from the slay,
glazed the hood of a tractor -
trailer and crashed into an
Atianta interstate Cridav,
Idling all four people aboard
and starting an intense fire
on the busy highway
The Piper PA -32 took off
from DeKalb Peachtree
Airport and apparently ran
into trouble not long after-
ward, Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration spokesman
Kathleen Bergen said.
TUESDAY MAY 3120161
SANLUISOBISPO.COK
controllers.
"I said, `Hey, Gulfport, I
don't think I'm going to
make Mobile. I'm going to
put this thing down on the
road,"' McKnight said.
A motorist, Sarah Wash-
burn, told WLOX-TV that
the pilot was able to signal
to drivers that he needed
to land.
"He started going up
and down, up and down
like I need to land instead
of flipping back around
and turning around. So it
kind of gave all of us a
heads up to all us cars,
and we all started putting
on our brakes," Washburn
recalled.
SEPTEMBER 16., LaAS
Tahoe crash: Two
people were killed when
their single-engine plane
crashed next to a house
in South Lake Tahoe
shortly after takeoff,
officials said. Lake Ta-
hoe Airport director
Sherry Miller said the
Beech 35 Bonanza
sparked a fire, but it was
quickly extinguished
Saturday. Two people
and a dog inside the
home got out safely, and
no one on the ground
was hurt. The names of
the victims were not
immediately disclosed.
The Federal Aviation
-- Administration and the
A T U R DAY. JA N UA R Y r❑, t o 15 National Transportation
F Small plane crashes
Into LA. street
LOS ANGELES — A
small plane crashed Friday
in a Los Angeles intersec-
tion just south of Van Nuys
3
i Airport, killing the one per-
son aboard, authorities said.
The aircraft didn't hit
any vehicles or structures
and there was no fire, Los
Angeles Fire Department
;spokesman Erik Scott said.
The victim died at the
scene.
The plane was a single-
engine Lancair and went
down around 1:15 p.m.
shortly after takeoff from
Van Nuys, Federal Aviation
Administration spokesman
Ian Gregor said.
- Safety Board axe in-
vestigating the crash.
Sunday, June 15, 2014 1
0 Plane crash: A small
plane crashed outside New
Yorlc City on Friday, killing a
great grandson o?Standard
Oil co-founder John D. Rock-
efeller, a family spokesman
said. The single-euoie plane
tool, off from Westchester
County Airport and narrowly
missed a house west of the
oftfield before .hitting some
ri trees, officials said. Richard
Rockefeller, of Falmouth,
Maine, was the only person
on board the aircraft. The
65 -year-old was a doctor and
father of two, family spokes-
man Fraser Seitel said. On
Thursday, Richard Rockefel-
ler ate dinner with his father,
David, in Westchester to
celebrate the family patri-
arch's 99th birthday, Seitel
said. The cause of the crash is
under investigation.
Monday, October 12, 2015 1
Pieces of plane's
engine fail on Fresno
FRESNO — Federal Avia-
tion Administration officials
are investigating why pieces
of a firefighting airplane's
engine fell on a CentraI
Valley neighborhood. The
phimmet unsettled resi-
dents and is puzzling au-
thorides, but caused little
damage and no injuries.
The Fresno Bee report-
ed
eported Tuesday that the Mc-
Donnell Douglas DC -9-87
experienced engine failure
shortly after taking off Sun-
day afternoon with a two -
ton load of fire -retardant
chemicals to battle a mas-
sive wildfire in the region.
The pilots shut down one
of the plane's two engines
when one caught tire.
On returning to the air-
port, fragments from the
damaged engine fell to the
ground. One piece shat-
tered
hattered the rear window of a
parked car.
MARYLAND I Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1
6 killed when private jet slams
into home, igniting fireball
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAITHERSBURG, Md. —A
small, private jet crashed into a
house Monday, killing a woman
and her young sons inside the
home and three people on the
aircraft, authorities said.
The jet slammed into the
home just before lunchtime in
Gaithersburg, a Washington,
D.C., suburb, Montgomery
County Fire and Rescue Chief
Steve Lohr said.
Authorities quickly said all
three people in the plane had
been killed but it took hours for
them to sweep the home and
confirm that three people were
inside when the plane crashed..
They were later identified as a
woman andhertwo sons, a
month-old infant and a 3 -year-
old, said Montgomery County
Police Chief j. Thomas Manger.
He would only identify them by
their last name: Gemmell.
Neighbors and property
records identify the home's
residents as Ken and Marie
Gemmell.
The two-story, wood -frame
home was guttedby the impact
ofthe crash and ensuing blaze.
The first floor was nearly com-
pletely blown out and smoke
drifted from a gaping hole in
what was left of the roof. Two
adjacent homes also had signif=
icant damage, with one ofthem
clearly having caught fire.
Officials said the founder and
CEO of a North Carolina clinical
research organization was
among those on the plane.
Health Decisions of Durham
said in a news release that Dr.
Michael Rosenberg died in the
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Emergency personnel work at the home in Gaithersburg, Md.,
that was destroyed when it was struck by a small aircraft.
crash.
Rosenbergwas apilot who
crashed a different plane in
Gaithersburg on March 1, 2010,
according a government official
who asked not to be named.
Investigators are still trying to
determine if Rosenberg was at
the controls at the time of Mon-
day's crash.
Fred Pedreira, 67, who lives
near the crash site, said he had
just returned home from the
grocery store and was parking
his car when lie saw the jet and
immediately knew something
was wrong.
"This guy, when I saw him,
for a fast jet with the wheels
down, I said, `I think he's com-
ing in too low,' " Pedreira said.
"Then he was 90 degrees —
sidetways — and then he went
belly -up into the house and it
was a ball office. It was terrible."
Byron Valencia, 31, who also
lives nearby, said he was in his
kitchen when he heard a jet
engine flying overhead, and
then a big thump shortly after.
"When I opened my window,
I could see smoke over the trees
and I heard a small explosion,
like a pop," he said. "I could see
the smoke rising.... It's scary."
An FAA spokesman said
preliminary information
showed the Embraer EMB -Soo/
Phenom loo twin -engine jet
was on approach at the nearby
Montgomery County Airpark.
The National Transportation
Safety Board sent a team to
investigate. Agents have recov-
ered the cockpit voice and flight
data recorders from the plane.
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40 Helicopter crash: A Black Hawk
San Bernardino
school Monday
helicopter crashed onto a golf cours- in
time since a gur
Maryland during a routine training
flight Monday, killing one crew member
fire, killing his a
and injuring two others, the U.S. Army
wife and an 8-y(
said. The cause of the crash is under
dent. Classes at
investigation, the U.S. Army Military
Elementary rest
District of Washington said in a state -
after the shootir
school bad been
ment. Kevin Bowen, who works at the
Breton Bay Golf and Country Club, said
he saw the helicopter "flying kind of
low" and then "saw it spinning" before it
went down between the third and fourth
holes of the course in Leonardtown.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
G Portugal crash: A small
plane crashed Monday beside a
supermarket near Lisbon, killing
four people on board the aircraft
and one on the ground. Four
people were irjured, emergency
services said. The dead included
the Swiss pilot, three French
passengers on the plane and a
Portuguese truelt driver, officials
said. The Swiss -registered plane
crashed shortly after takeoff
from the small Tires airfield, 12
miles west of the Portuguese
capital. The cause of the crash is
under investigation.
\il
I Monday, February 20, 2017
Q Plane crash: A
small plane crashed
Sunday in a New
Jersey neighborhood,
injuring the pilot,
authorities said. The
single-engine Piper
went down in the
town of Bayonne.
City officials said the
56 -year-old pilot was
alert and talking
after rescuers re-
moved him from the
wreckage. He was
taken to a hospital
with undisclosed
injuries and was in
stable condition. His
name was not re-
leased. The plane
mangler] nnwer ]inac
WEDNESDAY MARCH 12017
SANLUISOBISPO.COM
IRFAN KHAN Los Angeles Times
SMALL PLANE HITS HOMES IN RIVERSIDE; 3 DEAD, 2 INJURED
Three people died and two were critically injured when a small plane carrying them home from a cheerleading
competition slammed into two California homes and started a raging fire, authorities and witnesses said. The
twin -engine plane with five occupants crashed late Monday afternoon in a Riverside neighborhood after taking
off from a nearby airport and making it less than a mile, Riverside Fire Chief Michael Moore said. It was bound
for San Jose. The impact destroyed two houses and sent plane parts flying down the block of single-family
homes. Authorities have not given the ages or identities of the victims.
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Wednesday, Decer 2, 2015 i...
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Alan Diaz / Associated Press
3 survive Florida plane crash
A Federal Aviation Administration official takes photos of a
Piper PA28 that crashed shortly after takeoff from a South
n, orida airport with three people aboard in Opa-Locka, Fla.
The three people aboard were taken to hospitals for treatment.
There was no immediate word on the extent of their injuries.
MONDAY DECEMBER 72015
SANLUtSIMISPO.CaM
M0,Tan Freeman
in plane mishap
TUNICA, MISS.
A statement from the
Tunica Airport says there
was minimal damage to
actor Morgan Freeman's
plane in a forced landing.
Freeman said in a state-
ment released by his pub-
licist Saturday that neither
he nor his pilot was hurt
but "I cannot say the same
about my plane."
Mayor Bill Luckett of
Clarksdale, Miss., is a
friend of the 78 -year-old
Oscar -winning actor. He
told The'Associated )cress
on Saturday that the plane
blew a tire on takeoff and
made an emergency land-
ing.
Jet trainer crash
kills 2 in SoCal
APPLE VALLEY
Authorities say a small
jet has crashed and
burned at a Southern Cali-
fornia desert airport, kill-
ing both people on board.
Fire officials say the jet,
identified as an L-39, went j
down around 2 p.m. Sun-
day at the Apple Valley
Airport in San Bernardino
County, about 70 miles
northeast of Los Angeles.
Ian Gregor of the Feder-
al Aviation Administration
said the plane had just
taken off when it went
down and crashed in a
fireball.
Nobody on the ground
was hurt but all flights in
and out of the airport were
halted.
DAVID MIDDLECAMP dmlddlecamp@thetribunenewscom
PLANE LANDS AT SLO AIRPORT WITHOUT LANDING GEAR
A single-engine plane with a stuck landing gear landed safely at the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport
early Tuesday afternoon, No injuries were reported, but the plane sustained damage during the landing, a Cal
Fire spokesman said. The degree of damage was not immediately known. Airport management could not
immediately be reached for Further information, but Cal Fire said Runway 29 was closed, and Cal Fire and
personnel from the San Luis Obispo Fire Department and San Luis Ambulance responded to the incident. The
runway reopened about 3:30 p.m. after the damaged aircraft was removed. Three people were aboard the plane,
the agency spokesman said.
— MATT F W NTAM
Saturday, November 19, 2o16
1 person dies,1 hurt
in small -plane crash
By Jenna Lyons
One person died and
another was airlifted to a
hospital in serious condi-
tion after a small plane
crashed into two homes
and a pickup truck near
Half Moon Bay Airport
on Friday, officials said.
The first reports of a
small -plane crash in
Moss Beach came in
around 11:20 a.m., and
firefighting crews re-
sponded to the l000
block of Park Way.
Two people were
aboard the plane, a sin-
gle-engine Cessna 172,
said Ian Gregor, a
spokesman for the Fed-
eral Aviation Adminis-
tration, which will in-
vestigate the crash.
The aircraft crashed
about it/2 miles from the
airport, hitting two
houses and a pickup
truck before coming to
rest at the second home
it hit, said California
Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection Bat-
talion Chief David Cos-
grave.
One person in the
plane was pronounced
dead at the scene. The
other, who appeared to
be a man, was flown to
Stanford Medical Center
by a California Highway
Patrol helicopter, he said.
FAA officials said the
plane had taken off Fri-
day from Sacramento
Executive Airport and
was headed to Half
Moon Bay Airport when
the crash occurred.
Cynthia Trujillo, who
I Sunday, August 14, 2016 1
Plane crash: Six people
were killed when their small
plane crashed Friday at the
edge of a northern Virginia
airport. State Police said the
plane tools off from LottisvW e,
Ky., and stopped in Indiana
before continuing on to Virgin-
ia. The plane crashed into trees
and caught fire after aborting
its landing at Shannon Airport
in Fredericksburg. The victims
were identified Saturday as
pilot William Hamerstadt, 64,
of Carmel, fnd.; plane owner
Robert Ross, 73 of Louisville,
Ky.; passenger Lisa Borinstein,
52, and her two children, 19 -
year -old Luke Borinstein and
15 -year-old Emma Borinatein,
of Shelbyville, Ind.; and 15 -
year -old Maren Timmerman,
an exchange student from 13er-
lin. The crash is under investi-
gation.
lives at one of the homes
the aircraft hit, said no
one inside her house was
injured.
"No one was home,"
said Trujillo, 59•
Other neighbors on
the street, like Annette
Saunders, 57, checked in
on their homes as well.
Saunders learned of the
crash while she was at
work and called her
neighbor and dog walker
to learn her home was
OK.
Saunders said nothing
like this has happened in
her 24 years living in the
neighborhood.
"It seems like a nice
day," Saunders said. "I
don't know what could
have been the problem,
but I'm sure we'll find
out eventually."
Jenna Lyons is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email: jlyons@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@Jennajourno
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 1
0 Plane crash: A plane
crash in western Montana
killed its pilot and a star of
the History channel reality
series "Ice Road Truckers."
Pilot Mark Melotz and Dar-
rell Ward, 52, of Deer
Lodge, died in the fiery
crash Sunday on the shoul-
der of Interstate 90 south-
east of Missoula. Melotz
appeared to be trying to
land at a small airstrip
when "something went
drastically wrong," said
sheriff's Capt. Bill Burt.
Witnesses said the airplane
appeared to stall, then went
through a stand of trees,
Butt said. Ward appeared
on five seasons of "Ice Road
Truckers," which follows
drivers taking supplies in
big rigs across frozen lakes
to work camps and remote
towns. He drove in Alaska
and Canada.
Chronicle News Services
Sunday, November 20, 2016
0 Plane crash: An
air -ambulance plane
taking a patient to a Utah
hospital crashed in a
parking lot in Elko, Nev.,
killing all four people
aboard. Three crew
members and the patient
were killed in the Friday
night crash, American
Medflight in Reno said
Saturday. Identities were
not released. The twin -
engine plane crashed in a 1
mining company's park-
ing lot near a casino and
other businesses near
Elko Regional Airport
and Interstate 80. No one
on the ground was hurt.
The National Trans-
portation Safety Board
and the Federal Aviation
Administration are in-
vestigating the crash.
Q Helicopter crash: A helicopter apparently
broke apart as it fell from the sky before crashing
and bursting into flames in a Minneapolis suburb,
killing two people, sheriff's officials said Friday.
The wreckage was still on fire when emergency
personnel arrived at the sod field in Lino Lakes
where the helicopter crashed about 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office said in
a statement. The amount of debris scattered over
several hundred yards suggested the helicopter was
breaking apart as it descended, officials said. Wit-
nesses said they heard a loud pop or explosion and
saw the helicopter's rotors stop spinning before it
started falling and breaking apart. The victims
were not immediately identified.
CAMPAIGN 2016
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Jordan Fouracre / AFP / Getty Images
Fire and smoke rise in the aftermath of the crash of a small plane into a
shopping center in Melbourne, Australia, as seen in a TV video frame grab.
AUSTRALIA
Plane crashes into mall,
killing 4 U.S. tourists
By Christine Hauser
A small plane crashed
into a shopping mallin
Melbourne, Australia, on
Tuesday, killingfour
American tourists along
with the pilot, police said.
The private charter
plane crashed about 9 a.m.
local time, just after take-
offfrom Essendon Fields
Airport and slammed into
a building in the complex,
the Direct Factory Outlet,
which is adjacent to the
airport, police said.
No one was injured
inside the mall in sub-
urban Essendon; the
crash occurred about 45
minutes before the shops
wereto open, police said.
The passengers were on
theirwayfromMel-
bourne, in the southeast-
ern state of Victoria; to
King Island, a golf and
resort island that is part of
Tasmania, about 16o miles
to the south, the police
said.
Before crashing, the
pilot called in a "mayday,"
and the plane was be-
lieved to have had a cata-
strophic engine failure,
the Victoria police super-
intendent, Michael Fre-
wen, said at a news confer-
ence. The Australian
Transport Safety Bureau
is investigating the cause
of the crash, police said.
A total of five people
were onboard the twin -
engine Beecheraft Super
KingAir that crashed,
Police Minister Lisa Ne-
ville said at another news
conference, according to
local news reports.
A witness told ABC
Radio Melbourne that he
had been in a taxi when he
saw the plane coming in
low and fast.
"The plane was coming
way, wayfast,"he said. "I
thought, that's faster than
normal. It looked like it hit
the building. There was a
massive fireball. I could
feel the heat through the
window"
A police spokeswoman
in Victoria declined by
telephone to identify the
names of the victims,
citing department policy.
A U.S. State Department
spokesman, Mark Toner,
confirmed in anemailed
statement that fourAmer-
ican citizens had been on
the flight, but gave no
further details.
Thenamesofpassen-
gers, however, have been
drihblingout, Family,
business associates and
Australian media identi-
fied them as retired FBI
agent Greg Reynolds De
Haven, attorney Russell
Munsch and Glenn Gar-
land, a former energy
company executive. The
name ofthe fourth Amer-
ican was not available.
Christine Hauser is a New
York Timestoriter. :
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
eadet crash: A jet crashed into a building near
all New rerssv airport nn Monday, killing two
members and sparking a fire that sent thick,
smoke spewing into the air, authorities said.
e said no passengers were aboard the Leak jet 35
1 it went down around 3:3o p.m. near'reterboro
art, just west of New York City. The plane
led into a building in an industrial area, said,joe
Ido, a spokesman for the town of Carlstadt,. Ile
t crashed next to a township facility, but no one
it building was harmed. The jet had departed
Philadelphia, and the cause of the crash is un-
tvestigation.
Sunday, March 2o, 2o16
Q Plane crash: Two
teenagers were able to
walk away after their rent-
ed airplane crashed onto a
Wichita, Kan., golf course.
The pilot was a 17 -year-old
boy and the passenger an
18 -year-old woman who
were on their way from
Nashville to jabara Airport
in Wichita on Friday when
.they crashed, police said.
The 1966 single-engine
Mooney came down at the
Tallgrass Country Club,
narrowly uiissiiig nearby
horses. Nikki Womack .
said she and her daughter
saw the plane fly low over
their neighbor's home
before crashing onto the
course. Womack said the
boy got out and was bleed-
ing from the head, fol-
lowed by the woman, who
had an eye injury.
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