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Plane crash lands at closed airport. Pilot vanishes.
A 1961 Beechcraft twin-engine plane crash lands at now closed Cornelia Fort airport in Nashville. Authorities say that the plane landed with no landing gear, and no radio. To make it even more dramatic, nobody was around the plane when authroities arrived. Later today, Seventy-four-year-old Russell Brothers has acknowledged in a telephone conversation with authorities that he was piloting the 1961 Beechcraft twin-engine airplane that crash landed late Friday night/early Saturday morning at the… (www.police.nashville.gov) Más...
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The pilot explains the emergency landing here -- http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120423/NEWS01/304240006/Elderly-pilot-criminal-past-explains-East-Nashville-emergency-landing
Tail number is N6B but it was not flying with an IFR flight plan -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N6B
Tail number is N6B but it was not flying with an IFR flight plan -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N6B
...still sounds fishy, but I suppose even fishy stories can be true sometimes.
The more I think about it, if your gear won't extend and you're that close to Nashville or Smyrna, why not put down there? It's not like they don't have ARFF equipment there or quick access to paramedics. Sure, let's fly to a closed airpark with no one around and not notify anyone via radio...smart!
Now it makes a little more sense why he didn't report it right away... He was flying without a valid medical (look at the end of the article).
And it wasn't mentioned, but also seems fishy. The pilot was convicted years ago and served 11 years in a federal prison for transporting cocaine. Hmmmm....
