AUTHORITIES ID SECOND VICTIM IN PLANE CRASH.Byline: - Daily News LANCASTER - An Encino resident was identified Friday as the second man killed in Monday's crash of a private plane near Fox Airfield. Marv Rubinek, 50, who has a helicopter license, was flying with documentary filmmaker Gary Rhine Rhine (rīn), Du. Rijn, Fr. Rhin, Ger. Rhein, Lat. Rhenus, principal river of Europe, c.820 mi (1,320 km) long. It rises in the Swiss Alps and flows generally north, passing through or bordering on Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea., a licensed flight instructor, who was also killed. The men had been practicing how to land if the plane's engine quit. The plane had made one practice landing and was coming in for another when it crashed in the sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. tridentata), called also big sagebrush, is a silvery-gray low shrub with a pungent odor of sage, although it is unrelated to the true sage. about a mile from the end of the runway. The plane, a single-engine Cirrus SR20, was equipped with a parachute designed to allow it to float down for a landing. The parachute was not deployed before the crash, but came out after the impact, investigators believe. National Transportation Safety Board investigators said determining the cause would take several months. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion