Disasters in Montana - Coal Mining Disasters in Montana, Natural Disasters in Montana, 2009 Montana Pilatus PC-12 Crash, Mann Gulch Fire (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Coal Mining Disasters in Montana, Natural Disasters in Montana, 2009 Montana Pilatus Pc-12 Crash, Mann Gulch Fire, Great Fire of 1910, Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series, Schoolhouse Blizzard, Northwest Airlines Flight 2, Quake Lake, Northwest Airlines Flight 1, Smith Mine Disaster, Speculator Mine Disaster. Excerpt: 2009 Montana Pilatus Pi12 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The accident aircraft was a Swiss-made Pilatus Pi12/45, FAA registration number N128CM, a single-engine turboprop which is certified for a maximum of nine passengers, or eleven people including the pilot and copilot. The aircraft was Pilatus construction number 403, built in 2001 and certified in September 2002. The registered owner was Eagle Cap Leasing, Inc. of Enterprise, Oregon, owned by the father of two of the passengers. The pilot, Ellison "Buddy" Summerfield, 65, of Highland, California, was a former US Air Force pilot, who had reportedly logged more than 8,500 civilian flight hours with more than 2,000 hours in the Pi12, and was well known to the passengers according to the aircraft's owner, "Bud" Feldkamp. The plane departed in the morning from Redlands Municipal Airport in Redlands, California, picked up two families at Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville and another family at Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE) in Oroville. The flight departed Oroville at 12:10 PDT as a 14 CFR Part 91 (personal flight) on an instrument flight rules flight plan and clearance for Bozeman, Montana's Gallatin Field, with Butte as the alternate. While cruising at FL250 (approximately 25,000 feet AMSL), the pilot requested and was subsequently cleared to divert to Butte, about 85 miles (135 km) northwest of Bozeman. The pilot did not provide a reason for the diversion. The weath... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22096325