CRASH OF SMALL PLANE KILLS ONE.Byline: Lisa Mascaro and Kathleen Sweeney Staff Writers GORMAN - A flight instructor A flight instructor is a person who teaches others to fly aircraft. Specific privileges granted to holders of a flight instructor certificate vary from country to country, but very generally, a flight instructor serves to enhance or evaluate the knowledge and skill level of an was killed and another man was in critical condition after their single-engine plane went down under cloudy skies Monday morning in an area known for crashes, authorities said. The men, from Washington and Oregon, crashed at 8:10 a.m. in a horse pasture on Peace Valley Road near Gorman School, after possibly trying to land on Interstate 5, authorities said. The name of the flight instructor, 39, from Washington, was not immediately released. Lee James Lee James (born October 31 1953) was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. Weightlifting achievements
``It came at a severe angle, hit, then traversed about 20 feet on the ground,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County fire Capt. Norm Branch. ``They hit real hard.'' The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating but could not say what caused the two-seat Piper PA 28 to crash, said NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigator Bob Crispin. They could not say who was flying the plane, since it had dual controls. ``We don't have enough information right now to say,'' said Crispin. ``That particular area has had its share of accidents.'' It's unclear where the men were headed because they didn't file a flight plan, but it's believed they left William J. Fox Field near Lancaster, said Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control spokesman Jerry Snyder. Flight plans showed the plane had completed a flight Sunday at Fox Field, authorities said. A witness told authorities the plane had been flying low over the freeway Monday morning, but the witness did not see it crash. ``They said they observed the airplane flying low over the freeway, northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. ,'' said fire Battalion Chief Glenn Mutch n. 1. The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman. . ``It turned, came around and just went down. He thought he might have been trying to land on the freeway.'' The men appeared to be pinned inside and were pulled out by emergency crews, authorities said. FAA officials said the 1973 Piper PA-28-140 is registered to Daniel L. Sweet and Kevin W. Weils, in Milwaukie, Ore., a suburb of Portland. The National Weather Service reported 10 miles' visibility with cloudy skies and light rain from an observatory site near Gorman. ``The conditions were pretty rough for a small aircraft to fly into,'' said NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) Meteorologist Richard Thompson. ``Flying along through the passes, it could be very easy to get caught up in the clouds.'' Stormy weather has caused numerous small-plane crashes in the area since 1989. Most recently, the pilot of a single-engine plane was killed in April 1999 when the Cessna 150 crashed into a rugged hillside near Tejon Pass At an elevation of 4,183 ft. (1,275 m.), the Tejon Pass (IPA: [teɪˈhoʊn ˈpæs]) is a mountain pass at the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains in southern California in the United States. , east of Interstate 5 near Peace Valley Road. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, map Photo: (1 -- color -- ran in SAC edition only) The single-engine Piper airplane went down in cloudy conditions in a horse pasture near Gorman on Monday morning. (2 -- ran in Valley edition only) Monday's crash site is surveyed by air safety investigator Mark Platt, left, and a Federal Aviation Administration investigator. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News Map: (ran in SAC edition only) Site of plane crash |
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