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Soory to be short on blackberry driving to palm springs. My stepdad was flying ferom twenty nine palms to palm spring this morning and went down. Search and rescue stopped searching bby air dur to rain. Please please please palm spring jeepers if u can spare some time please help search for him. I will be there in three hours. Last radar blip was 8 miles north of palm spring in the mountain range. I don't know the area, if ui do please go on some of your known backroads and help look. It was a white cesna. I will go out and tag along with anyone if they will have me. Thanks guys.
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Damn, sorry to hear that, hope it all works out ok. Made the thread a sticky for you.
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I hope this was them...
http://www.kpsplocal2.com/mostpopular/story/Update-Two-People-Found-in-Plane-Crash/KPUWvihv8kalV9slycyRug.cspx
Bob http://www.jeepaholics.com/rides/view.asp?id=147 Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. <Will Rogers> Fat City Racing 2009 Baja 1000 Class Champions Dust Junkies Racing 1706
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I think it was them. From today's Press-Enterprise.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_webplane19.dcab46.html
Pilot, co-pilot found alive in wreckage
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06:39 AM PST on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
After disappearing from radar screens while lost in bad weather, a small plane crashed yesterday in Joshua Tree National Park critically injuring the two occupants, according to Riverside County Fire Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials.
The wreckage of the Cessna 172 was reported at 10:39 p.m. Monday in such rugged terrain that it took firefighters nearly an hour to reach the survivors.
Both victims had to be extricated from the smashed airplane and then hoisted aboard a Riverside County sheriff's helicopter. The patients were then transferred to air ambulances that flew them to a local hospital.
The two injured survivors apparently spent most of the day in the wrecked four-seater.
The drama began at 8:22 a.m. Monday when the flight instructor and student pilot radioed air traffic controllers in Palm Springs, saying they were lost in bad weather somewhere over Joshua Tree National Park.
They had taken off from Roy Williams Airport in Joshua Tree bound for Palm Springs. Air traffic controllers assigned the pair a special code for their onboard radio beacon, but controllers lost contact with the plane about 10 miles north of Palm Springs, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said last night.
Controllers contacted the Civil Air Patrol to conduct a ground and air search. Search aircraft heard signals from a crash-activated emergency radio beacon, but couldn't spot the wreckage because of thick clouds from a strong afternoon storm, Kenitzer said.
The search aircraft later were grounded by the bad weather.
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wow hope that was them!! crazy how much rain you CA guys have been getting!
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Was talking to our VP at work about this yesterday, he is part of the searcha nd rescue team out here.
Was your stepdad the instructor or student?
Glad they were ok considering everything...
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Originally posted by xXmetalmulishaXx
wow hope that was them!! crazy how much rain you CA guys have been getting!
3"-4" in the past couple of days in the 92567 zip. Not alot by many standards, but for SoCal it is quite a bit.
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i was watching the news last night and they were saying the huntington beach had a tornado! showed pictures of some very expensive boats flipped over on top of other boats!
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Originally posted by xXmetalmulishaXx
i was watching the news last night and they were saying the huntington beach had a tornado! showed pictures of some very expensive boats flipped over on top of other boats!
8 tornado "events" but only two actual funnels. We were under a tornado watch yesterday in Los Angeles. (love weatherunderground.com)
Supposed to be worse today and tomorrow. There was some great footage yesterday of the flooded 710 freeway. I had fun getting home on the 210 on Monday. Flooded spots. I tried to keep the SS Jeep-tanic from swamping little Hondas and Priuses. (Wonder what happens when you get a Prius too wet?) That blunt bow on the Jeep creates quite a wake.
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sorry for the late update things have been crazy, yes that was them. My stepdad was not the instructor, but didnt need one as well. The news kinda had it wrong. My stepdad was cleared to fly himself, but had the instructor along. Search and rescue found them around 2:30 tuesday morning. My stepdad crawled up the mountain after the crash for cell service but then crawled back down to the plane when he couldnt get anything. He had a broken leg, right near the ankle, and was suffering from hypothermia. The instructor was a little worse off but he had some pre-existing health issues that made the plane crash a little harder on him. Suprisingly though, they survived wich was more than we were expecting. the locator beacon that they had in the plane was an old style that took 6-8 hours to start transmitting an accurate signal. they were about 2 miles away from where my my mom and stepdad lived which was kinda ironic. the family member talking to the news acutally hasnt really talked to the family in about a year and a half so it is a little incorrect. The instructor was flying the plane and my stepdad was working the radio to enter palm springs airport airspace. after he was done making a call he looked out and saw that they were only a couple hundred feet off of the ground. He alerted the instructor, who tried pulling up but hit the mountain that rose rather quickly in front of them. the slammed into the mountain and then flipped upside down. the instructore is telling people that there was a tailwind and then a rather large updraft, which doesnt really follow along with what my stepdad was saying, so who knows. I would like to thank everyone for the concern, luckily this was the 1% that actuallyt survived a small plane crash. I would like to point out though, that the plane took off and was only planning a 15 minutes flight down the mountains before the weather turned bad, so it was not a poor decision to leave when they did. Pilot error was the reason for the crash unfortunatley, especially since the instructor was really respected and really experienced. My mom has been flying all my life and my stepdad just started about two years ago. So thanks again, and sorry for the time gap between updated.
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