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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Delnorin on November 24, 2011, 04:19:07 AM
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As I was getting out of my Trigonometry class yesterday evening a plane was crashing into the mountains about 40 miles East of where I was in class.
Backstory: A guy I work with (the same guy that was hooking me up with the Navy Seal group) works as a volunteer on the Superstition Mountains Search and Rescue group. The guy goes out when people don't come home from their day of hiking and finds them. Many times he finds bodies, a few times he gets to be the hero that then calls in the helicopter after locating them.
At 6:05 pm yesterday evening he got a call that three people were out in the Superstition Mountains (early 20's) and lost. Gets dark about that time here now. So he called his crew and they set out to search for the three missing people.
At 6:40 pm or so abouts... a small 8-12 passenger plane takes off from a nearby smaller airport.. and soon thereafter smashes into the Supersition Mountains in the area known as the "Flat Iron".
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2607/4167008969_c95d10b405.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinanderic/4167008969/)
flatiron (http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinanderic/4167008969/) by Thee E. Aldriches (http://www.flickr.com/people/erinanderic/), on Flickr
(You can read more about the Flat Iron here: http://www.mocs1986.com/2009/12/tourists-superstition-mountains.html (http://www.mocs1986.com/2009/12/tourists-superstition-mountains.html))
Elevation is something like 7,500 feet (about 7,000 feet climb above the Phoneix city level out in the desert valley to the West of this place).
Big explosion.. fire everywhere...
My friend just called me on the phone at 3:00 am after just getting back and needing someone to talk to. He's seen a great deal but this shook him up and he needed someone to talk to.
He found the three missing hikers.... and they were mortified and in shock. They had been lost right where the plane crashed. They had seen the plane come in, the crash/explosion, etc.
My friend also informed me that he saw the three young children dead/strewn about in the chaos and fire/twisted metal, etc. Not a good thing. There were adults (also dead) there and about the area from the plane.
My friend wanted me to make sure when I got home from work in the morning that I gave my daughter some good hugs.
He also informed me that the mother of the children was not on the plane.. but from Mesa (like 15-20 miles West of the crash site).. saw the explosion and crash. I can't imagine what that poor lady is going through right now.
Oh.. here's some sites on it:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mysterious-plane-crashes-in-arizonas-superstition-mountains/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mysterious-plane-crashes-in-arizonas-superstition-mountains/)
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Small-plane-crashes-into-mountain-east-of-Phoenix-2287082.php (http://www.chron.com/news/article/Small-plane-crashes-into-mountain-east-of-Phoenix-2287082.php)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aircraft-crashes-arizona-superstition-mountains-east-phoenix-killing-article-1.982130 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aircraft-crashes-arizona-superstition-mountains-east-phoenix-killing-article-1.982130)
http://landing.newsinc.com/chron/video.html?freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron_us_non_sty&VID=23550521 (http://landing.newsinc.com/chron/video.html?freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron_us_non_sty&VID=23550521)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzl0eKnXoi0&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzl0eKnXoi0&feature=player_embedded#)
Oh... side note:... the plane crashed about 300 feet away from another plane crash that happened in the 1970's.
I asked him why they didn't fly people up to the site with a helicopter and just drop off a load and ferry people up to the top to deal with the situation. He informed me that there is like a 60 degree slope in most places.. no place to land. The only good place that is flat and large enough.. was rolling/soaring fire from the airplane fuel and that made being airlifted in, impossible.
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Ugg...not much to be said about stuff like this. :'(
::praying::
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OMG, what an explosion! I pray for your friend and all of the responders, the families affected...may God comfort them all!
::praying::